Tiptree Brandy Butter, 170 Gram

Love this product. Get it every year. Keep it friged. Hard to find this in America = true. So great to find it. Repeat purchase/buyer. Great appearance and phenomenal taste. Great quality. I microwave it on top of my plum pudding = pure bliss. Good value in price. I try to buy this around October to get the product well before Xmas. Love the screw down lid. Never had problems with product leakage, but their packing could be much better. Got this with a loose bubble wrap in a small box. A miracle it arrived intact ... It's a glass jar!! Shipper needs some education on how to ship glass, internationally.

OK, so it's easy enough to make your own "hard sauce", right? (Cream butter and confectioner's sugar, mix in vanilla or your choice of decadent flavoring, then firm up in fridge before using on "plum pudding", mince pie or other delightful desserts.). Catch is, when you're living in a tiny apartment with almost no kitchen and splurging on an imported plum pudding for Christmas (yeah, grandma used to make those, too, but, I mean, really, 6 weeks?), sometimes you just don't have room for a stand mixer to do the creaming and barely enough room to clean up afterward. Enter this jar of sauce. It's the real thing, just as New Englanders and some Southerners have made in the British manner for many generations. Use sparingly (it's a tiny jar, anyway). When you put a heaping half a teaspoonful onto a small serving of warmed plum pudding, or mince or apple pie, and it starts melting all over the whole, the combined taste is sheer heaven. Yup, it's expensive. But well worth it. There's always a jar of it in my tiny apartment, just in case. :)

great taste

When Tiptree says "Brandy Butter," they mean it. I was looking for Crosse & Blackwell hard sauce, but it doesn't seem to exist any more. I had some fig-almond cake. The cake was tasty but in need of a punch-up. I warmed it in the microwave and spooned some brandy butter on top. It melted nicely and provided the bright sweetness I was seeking.The product has only three ingredients: brandy, sugar, and butter. The C & B hard sauce, as I remember it, had other flavorings, too. I recall vanilla, and I missed that element, but only momentarily.Enjoy.

I give this stuff 1 star because even though it is good, it is WAY over-priced. It was just barely "reasonably" priced back in October 2014 when I bought two jars priced at $9.13 each. When you add $7.85 shipping & handling they charged onto the total you have some thing that is totally out of line. When I was growing up we used to use the Cross & Blackwell brand hard sauce that one use to be able to buy off the shelf in the local grocery store. It doesn't seem to be available any more which is why I settled for this stuff. But never again. After using this stuff I went on line and found a recipe that takes about 10 minutes max to make. Here it is:Ingredients:1/2 cup soft butter1 1/2 cups sifted confectioner sugar ( i never sift it)2 table spoons rum or brandy (I use brandy)1/4 tsp almond extract (Optional, but I use it)Preparation:1. Cream the butter with the confectioners sugar until light and fluffy. I just do this with a fork - mashing and stirring the butter and sugar in the mixing bowl. I guess with soft enough butter you could use a blender. Nevertheless withing 5 minutes or so I get what I want: it never gets to what I would call light and fluffy but it gets smooth and creamy.2. Stir in the rum/brandy- do this one teaspoon at a time to keep it from separating. I guess it can separate if you add it all at once. I didn't experience this. However if you do it has been suggested that you just add more sugar.3. Stir-in the almond extract.4. Refrigerate.Mmmm-mmm good. Just as good if not better than this TipTree stuff selling for $2.67 cents an ounce.Cheers!

Bought it for the holidaysWe will now use all year. English muffins, pancakes, crescent rolls!

Beware expiration date on this item has been only one month both times that I have ordered this. My mistake for ordering again.

It was a nice compliment to the desert I brought to family function. Lots of compliments as a lot of the guests were not familiar with it. Worth the cost.