Hard Sauce - American Recipe

Hard Sauce

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Small bowl, Tablespoon, Small strainer

A fundamental hard sauce used across many classic American recipes.

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon cream or milk

Method

1. Cream — the butter in a bowl.
2. Sift — the sugar through a small strainer, and add it, a little at a time, to the butter, "creaming" the two together.
3. Add — the vanilla and the cream or milk, a few drops at a time, and mix thoroughly.

Tags: milk, cream, butter, sugar · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)