Mint flavored hard sauce
Yield: 1 Batch MMMMM-
Ingredients:
- 1 Stick unsalted butter -- softened
- 2 1/2 c Powdered sugar
- 1/8 ts French Cognac Vanilla
- 1 tb Mint flavored syrup MMMMM--------------------MINT FLAVORED SYRUP-------------------------
- 1/4 c ;Water
- 1/4 c Spearmint leaves; packed
- 1/2 c Sugar
Instructions:
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.



