Rum Cakes

Rum Cakes

Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
1/4 cup rum or wine

Directions:
Make a syrup by boiling sugar and water five minutes; then add rum or wine.
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Flûtes
Shape Brioche dough in sticks similar to Bread Sticks. Place on a buttered sheet, cover, and
let
rise fifteen minutes. Brush over with white of one egg slightly beaten and diluted with
one−half
tablespoon cold water. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake ten minutes. These are
delicious served with coffee or chocolate.
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Baba Cakes
To one and one−half cups Brioche dough add one−third cup each raisins seeded and cut in
pieces, currants, and citron thinly sliced, previously soaked in Maraschino for one hour.
Shape,
let rise, and bake same as Rum Cakes. Dip in sauce made same as Rum Sauce, substituting
Maras chino in place of rum.
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The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook
Baba Cakes with Apricots