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Ophelia[_14_]

"Taxed and Spent" > wrote in message
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> On 7/5/2016 9:05 AM, wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 06:11:51 -0700, Taxed and Spent
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> All the recipes I have seen just say to soak the raisins in rum.
>>> shouldn't there be some spices too?
>>
>> I don't put spices, I do soak the raisins overnight though so they are
>> really plump and full of rum.
>>
>
> Thanks all for your comments. About food!
>
> I couldn't find golden raisins and I didn't want to look all over heck for
> them. I will keep my eyes open in my travels for future batches.
>
> I bought some Costco spiced rum - darn it is good!
>
> I macerated the raisins for a couple days - putting more rum that the
> recipes all seem to call for, to properly soak the raisins.
>
> I used 2/3 brown sugar and 1/3 white sugar.
>
> I used a tiny bit of cinnamon.
>
> I should have REALLY chilled the mixture before putting it into the ice
> cream machine, so it wouldn't have taken so darn long. I did measure the
> temperature when it really started turning into ice cream - about 14
> degrees.
>
> Darn is it good!

Yes, it is very good, which is why I don't make it too often

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