Hard Sauce. ✠

Stir to a cream	1 cup of butter.
Stir to a cream	3 cups of powdered sugar.
When light, beat in	¾ teacup wine.
	Juice of a lemon.
	2 teaspoonfuls nutmeg.

Beat long and hard until several shades lighter in color than at first, and creamy in consistency. Smooth into shape with a broad knife dipped in cold water, and stamp with a wooden mould, first scalded and then dipped in cold water. Set upon the ice until the pudding is served.