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.

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