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- From: Boyd Zenner <bz2v@poe.acc.virginia.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Rum Cake Recipe
- Date: 19 Oct 1994 21:59:07 -0400
- Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site
- Message-ID: <384itb$r0m@junior.wariat.org>
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- Someone asked for a rum cake recipe--this one was my
- grandmother's:
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- 1 c. butter, at room temperature
- 3 c. sugar
- 1 t. salt
- 6 eggs
- 3 c. flour
- 1 c. sour cream
- 1/4 t. baking soda
- 1 t. vanilla extract
- 1/2 t. almond extract
- ____
- (glaze)
- 1 c. sugar
- 1/2 c. butter
- 1/2 cup dark Jamaican rum
- ___
-
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In a heavy-duty mixer, beat
- the sugar and butter with the salt until light and fluffy; beat
- in the eggs one by one. Add the vanilla and almond extracts,
- then alternate the flour with the sour cream (into which the
- baking soda has been mixed) in three separate additions, ending
- with the flour. Do *not* overbeat.
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- Turn the batter (it will be quite heavy) into a tube pan that
- has been greased and then coated with fine dry bread crumbs.
- Bake the cake for approximately 1 hour, or until it tests clean.
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- Remove the cake from the oven and let cool for five to ten
- minutes. Bring the butter, sugar, and rum to a boil in a
- saucepan and boil for 3 minutes; remove from heat. Prick the
- cake well with a long, thin skewer and slowly pour the hot rum
- syrup over it until the whole surface is glazed and the skewer
- holes have absorbed as much as they can. Let the cake sit in
- the pan for a couple of hours to cool while the glaze sets up.
-
- This cake is much better the day after it is made, and keeps
- very well.
-
- Boyd
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