[Sca-cooks] period hard sauce?

[Johnna Holloway]

http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2009/12/brandy-rum-or-hard_17.html

too tired to look more up tonight

Johnnae

On May 12, 2011, at 3:23 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> 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.
> -- 
> Someone sometimes called Urtatim