[Sca-cooks] period hard sauce?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Stefan wrote:
>  I'm assuming "hard sauce" means a sweet sauce which contains a
>  distilled alcohol of some type.

Hard sauce does not have to have alcohol in it. I suspect it has that 
name more for its consistency, which is not particularly saucey in a 
late 20th-early 21st c. sense, that is, it isn't liquidy, but, when 
chilled, rather firm.
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Someone sometimes called Urtatim