Brown sugar plus butter (not Crisco!) plus brandy or rum = hard sauce. Great way to make the Christmas fruit cake more edible (steam the cake for a few minutes before adding the hard sauce). Yummy!

Also helps to sample the rum or brandy before and after. laugh


Edited by OregonMouse (12/04/10 04:20 PM)
_________________________
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view--E. Abbey