Plain Cold, Hard Sauce

Original Recipe

Stir together one cupful of white sugar and half a cupful of butter until it is creamy and light; add flavoring to taste. This is very nice, flavored with the juice of raspberries or strawberries, or beat into it a cupful of ripe strawberries or raspberries and the white of an egg beaten stiff.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cupful of white sugar and half a cupful of butter until it is creamy and light
  • 1 cupful of ripe strawberries or raspberries and the white of an egg beaten stiff

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Stir together one cupful of white sugar and half a cupful of butter until it is creamy and light; add flavoring to taste.

  2. 2

    This is very nice, flavored with the juice of raspberries or strawberries, or beat into it a cupful of ripe strawberries or raspberries and the white of an egg beaten stiff.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)