September 2021 - Cooking with Rum

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                                 Baked Chicken and Rum

Ingredients:

  • 4 Whole Chicken Breasts
  • Salt and Pepper
  • 1 tsp. Nutmeg
  • ½ C. Butter, softened
  • 10 Scallions, chopped
  • ½ C. Celery, chopped
  • ½ C. Green Peppers, chopped
  • 2 Egg Yolks, slightly beaten
  • 1 C. Light Cream
  • 1 Tbsp. Rosemary
  • 1 tsp. Thyme
  • ½ C. Dark Rum, warmed

Directions:

  1. Season chicken with salt and pepper to taste.  Sprinkle with nutmeg.  
  2. Spread with butter, then place in a shallow baking pan and bake uncovered at 325°F for 45 minutes.  
  3. Remove from oven and sprinkle scallions, celery and green peppers.  
  4. In a saucepan combine egg yolks, cream, rosemary and thyme.  Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens.  
  5. Pour mixture over chicken and return chicken to the oven and bake for 25 minutes more, or until tender.  
  6. When ready to serve chicken, place chicken along with the sauce in a serving dish deep enough to hold sauce. 
  7. Pour rum over chicken and ignite.  Spoon sauce over chicken until flames die out and then serve.

                               Spiced Rum Applesauce Cake

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 C. Butter
  • 1 C. Brown Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 tsp. Cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. Nutmeg
  • ½ tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Baking Powder
  • 2 C. Cake Flour
  • ¾ C. Applesauce, warmed
  • ¼ C. Spiced Rum
  • ½ C. Walnuts, chopped

Directions:

Cream together butter and sugar then add the eggs and beat until fluffy.  

Sift all dry ingredients together and add to the batter mixture alternately with applesauce and rum.  

Fold in the walnuts. Bake in a square pan at 350°F for 40 minutes.  Cool and ice with *creamy cheese frosting (see below recipe).

*Creamy Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

  • 2 Egg Whites
  • 1 ½ C. Sugar
  • 1/3 C. Dark Rum
  • 1- 3 oz. Package of Cream Cheese

Directions:

  1. Combine egg whites, sugar and rum in top of double boiler.  Beat 1 minute with rotary beater.  
  2. Cook over boiling water, beating constantly until frosting forms peaks (about 7 minutes).  Remove from heat.  
  3. In a bowl, soften the cream cheese and then fold into frosting and blend thoroughly.  Ready to apply to cake.