hard sauce

1. 1.

   butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddings

   Broadersauce

Questions about hard sauce

What does hard sauce mean?

hard sauce means "butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddings".

Is hard sauce a common word?

hard sauce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.