125 hard sauce recipes

Old-fashioned blueberry cake topped with hard sauce and a hot lemon-blueberry compote that melts the butter into the warm cake. A classic New England dessert with bright berry flavor.

Falscher Hase, a traditional German meatloaf stuffed with hard-boiled eggs, wrapped in bacon, and served with a sour cream pan gravy. A showpiece Sunday dinner.

Fried pike sandwich with Cambridge sauce: cornmeal-crusted pike fillets on pumpernickel, slathered with a classic English herb sauce of hard-boiled egg, anchovies, capers, and tarragon.

Deep-dish apple pie with a single top crust hiding a heap of brown sugar and cinnamon-spiced apples. Old-fashioned simplicity served with cream or hard sauce, just the way grandmother made it.

"Kohlrouladen" used to be a staple on the menu for regular people in Germany during winter time. The relatively long preparation and cooking time pays out, because it can be easily reheated over a couple of days and gets even better and tastier then. Fried potatoes complete the picture, but you can cook the potatoes also in the pot with the sauce, if there is space left. This recipe can be varied in many ways, be it the stuffing (ground meat here), or the sauce. The recipe is as traditional as it can be; the ingredients are adjusted to availability in North America (like Savoy cabbage in lieu of "Weisskohl", bacon to replace "Speckwuerfel"). For sure the ground meat can vary depending on preferences or diets - I bet quite often in the "good old times " regular people did not exactly know what's in the ground meat they got from the butcher - at least it was some meat, for most of the families only once a week.

Foamy orange sauce is a holiday-favorite hard sauce traditionally served over Christmas pudding, gingerbread, or bread pudding. Whipped butter, powdered sugar, and orange juice make a citrusy, cloud-like topping.

Baked apple crumble with sharp cheddar cheese folded into tart apples and topped with a buttery cinnamon streusel, then finished with more melted cheese. Serve warm with ice cream or hard sauce.

Steamed cranberry pudding, a brighter take on Christmas pudding: tart cranberries, walnuts, and apricots in a suet batter, steamed moist and served warm with caramel or hard sauce. A festive holiday dessert.

Broiled open-face crab burgers loaded with cheddar, hard-boiled eggs, and a tangy mayo-ketchup spread on toasted bun halves. Bubbly, golden, and ready in 20 minutes.

Bone-in chicken simmered in a fragrant almond, turmeric, and garam masala sauce finished with coconut cream and garnished with hard-boiled eggs, lime, and flaked almonds.

Indian egg curry with hard-boiled eggs in a creamy curry sauce spooned over toasted English muffins. A quick, protein-packed breakfast or brunch ready in 25 minutes.

Fish in horseradish sauce: poached white fish chilled and napped with a creamy roux-based horseradish sauce, finished with sour cream and sieved hard-boiled eggs. A traditional cold Eastern European starter.

Assorted blanched vegetables are served with a creamy and flavorful peanut butter sauce.

Noodles in fairy butter, a sweet historical pasta tossed in a rich sauce of hard-cooked egg yolks, butter, sugar, orange flower water, thyme, and basil.

Homemade Thousand Island dressing with chili sauce, hard-boiled eggs, dill pickle, and a dash of barbecue sauce. Creamy, tangy, and ready in 10 minutes flat.

Cubed ham, tender asparagus, and hard-boiled eggs in a cheesy cream sauce over toast points or biscuits. A hearty brunch or easy dinner that uses up leftover ham.