FoodBanter.com - View Single Post

Taxed and Spent

On 7/20/2016 1:16 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>
> "Taxed and Spent" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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
>
>
>>
>

Yes, I was just thinking how little 1.5 quarts seems to be. I will give
some away.