Hard Sauce

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• Sherry wine, brandy or vanilla
• Nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar slowly while stirring constantly.

2. 2

   Flavor as desired and pass through a pastry bag onto a serving dish.

3. 3

   Sprinkle with nutmeg.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 71. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hard Sauce Coffee 4 V SCOTCH POTATO SOUP (For recipe see Page 38.) PORK TENDERLOIN LYONNAISE Wipe and split two large pork tenderloins in halves lengthwise; sprinkle with salt, pepper and dredge with flour. Melt two table- spoons each of Cottolene and butter in an iron frying pan, and brown tenderloin richly on both sides in the hot fat. Remove to well- greased dripping pan and add to fat three onions thinly sliced; cook until delicately browned, stirring often. Sprinkle over onions two tablespoons flour, stir well. Put two tablespoons vinegar into one- half cup hot water, add slowly to onions, mix thoroughly. Lay tenderloins over onions, cover closely and cook in the oven until meat is tender. Dispose tenderloin on hot serving platter and pour over contents of frying pan. Vinegar may be omitted and more water added. BAKED APPLES Wipe and core eight tart apples; arrange them in a granite drip- ping pan. Fill cavities with sugar and drop one-fourth teaspoon butter on top of each, sprinkle with cinnamon, sprinkle round one- half cup sugar and pour on one cup cold water. Bake in a slow oven until soft, basting often with syrup in pan. Dispose on serving dish and sprinkle with granulated sugar. SCALLOPED POTATOES Wash, pare and slice six medium-sized potatoes. Butter a quart baking dish, lay in a layer of potatoes, sprinkle with salt. Dec^mber ^^ S Uflduy DiflfierS 161 First Sunday pepper, and dot over with bits of butter, dredge with flour and sprinkle lightly with chives. Repeat until potatoes are used and two tablespoons each of butter, flour and chives. Pour over one and one-half cups milk. Cover and bake one hour in the oven. Remove cover and brown top. Serve in baking dish. BERMUDA SALAD Slice thinly three or four Bermuda onions. Sprinkle with one tablespoon sugar, one teaspoon salt and cover with ice water. Let stand three hours. Drain and serve with French Dressing. APRICOT DUMPLINGS 2 cups flour. 1 tablespoon Cottolene. }/2 teaspoon salt. 1 cup thick cream. 4 teaspoons baking powder. Apricots. Process: Mix and sift flour, salt and baking powder, rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers, add cream, cutting it into flour mixture with a knife. Mix well. Turn on a floured board, knead slightly and roll out to one-half inch thickness. Shape with a large biscuit- cutter and place two halves of peeled apricots (drained from the syrup in the can) on each circle. Enclose them, pressing edges of dough together. Place them in a well-buttered granite dripping pan, one and one-half inches apart; sprinkle round them one cup granulated sugar, pour around two and one-half cups cold water. Bake in a hot oven twenty minutes, basting three times during cooking. Serve with HARD SAUCE J^ cup butter. 1 cup powdered sugar. Sherry wine, brandy or vanilla. Nutmeg

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