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Hard sauce

Hard sauce recipe to accompany Christmas pudding.

Ingredients

1⁄2 c butter
2 c sugar (confectioner's sugar, sifted)
1 pn salt
1 T water

Instructions

Cream butter.

Add gradually confectioners' sugar, creaming until light and fluffy.

Blend in salt, boiling water, and vanilla extract.

Chill until serving time.

Yield
12 servings
Preparation time
15

Notes

Blend 2 teaspoons rum or French's Brandy into this hard sauce, if desired, to make rum or Brandy butter. For a kid friendly rum or Brandy butter, use rum or Brandy flavoring not the spirit.

Source

This sauce looks more like icing than a sauce.