Mint flavored hard sauce
1 Batch
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stick unsalted butter softened | |
| 2½ | cup | Powdered sugar |
| ⅛ | teaspoon | French Cognac Vanilla |
| 1 | tablespoon | Mint flavored syrup |
| ¼ | cup | ;Water |
| ¼ | cup | Spearmint leaves; packed |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
Directions
HARD SAUCE
MINT FLAVORED SYRUP
To make the hard sauce, cream butter well. Add sugar gradually. Beat until very creamy. Add vanilla and mint syrup; blend well.
To make the mint flavored syrup, combine water and sugar and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Add mint leaves to syrup.
Bruise leaves well by mashing with a spoon. Cover and let steep for 4 hours. Remove leaves and strain syrup.
From Bessie Hulett in _Bessie's Blue Ribbon Recipes_ by Bessie Hulett.
Shively, KY: 1992. Pg. 110. Typed for you by Cathy Harned.