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"Taxed and Spent" > wrote in message
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> On 7/20/2016 1:16 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "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:
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>>>>> 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!
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>> Yes, it is very good, which is why I don't make it too often
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> Yes, I was just thinking how little 1.5 quarts seems to be. I will give
> some away.

Aye that is what to do ... <g>

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