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hard sauce

hard sauce noun: a rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings.

Noun

hard sauce (countable and uncountable, plural hard sauces)

  1. A rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings.

Forms of hard sauce

pluralhard sauces

Questions about hard sauce

What does hard sauce mean?
Hard sauce means a rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings.
What part of speech is hard sauce?
Hard sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of hard sauce?
The plural of hard sauce is hard sauces.

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