[Sca-cooks] period hard sauce?

[Antonia di B C]

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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