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Taxed and Spent

On 7/20/2016 1:18 PM, Gary wrote:
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:46:29 -0700, Taxed and Spent
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> Lol don't forget too much alcohol in the mix and it won't really set
>> too well.
>
> I would think that most people would cook the alcohol off before using
> it for ice cream. Cooking won't get rid of it all but most of it and you
> still have the taste left.
>

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