[Sca-cooks] period hard sauce?
Antonia di B C
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Wed May 11 13:55:38 PDT 2011
On 12/05/2011 8:29 AM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> <<< Sprinkle with confectioners sugar or serve with hard sauce. >>>
>
> I'm assuming "hard sauce" means a sweet sauce which contains a
> distilled alcohol of some type.
>
> Do we know of any "hard sauces" in period? It seems unlikely since we
> seem to have a hard time documenting cordials and distilled alcoholic
> beverages other than as medicinals, although admittedly the line
> between just food/drink and medicinals is blurry.
>
Hard sauce is basically butter with brandy or whiskey and powdered sugar
beaten into it. AFAIK, it isn't period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_sauce
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