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Barbara's Rum Balls
By: kkt Date: October 9, 2023, 10:47 am
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Mother's Rum Balls (as recorded by her daughter (and my mother)
Chris, probably early 1960s)
Some of the ink is fading, so I'm typing this while I can still
make it out.
1 cup crushed vanilla wafers (12 oz package makes a scant 3
cups)
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans (1 cup with the dough)
2 Tbs cocoa
2 Tbs light corn syrup
1/4 cup dark rum
1/4 cup fine grain sugar
Use a big bowl
Combine cookie crumbs, confectioner's sugar, 1 cup of the nuts,
and cocoa. Add corn syrup and rum and mix. Shape into 1"
balls. Roll half in fine sugar and other half in rest of the
nuts; or glue on 1/4 red glazed cherry with corn styup and then
roll in fine sugar.
Makes 2 doz. Double recipe?
#Post#: 212365--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barbara's Rum Balls
By: animaniactoo Date: October 9, 2023, 11:36 am
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It's interesting to me how close this is to my grandmother's
recipe that I posted in the daily thread. Same ingredients,
mostly the same measurements. Pecans vs Walnuts and Rum vs
Bourbon.
I suspect it must have been a fairly common recipe (on the side
of the Vanilla Wafer box maybe?), and people made slight
alterations based on their preferences.
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Re: Barbara's Rum Balls
By: kkt Date: October 9, 2023, 11:56 am
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[quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=2224.msg212365#msg212365
date=1696869402]
It's interesting to me how close this is to my grandmother's
recipe that I posted in the daily thread. Same ingredients,
mostly the same measurements. Pecans vs Walnuts and Rum vs
Bourbon.
I suspect it must have been a fairly common recipe (on the side
of the Vanilla Wafer box maybe?), and people made slight
alterations based on their preferences.
[/quote]
Very likely. I discovered one year, I think in the 1980s, that
many of the Christmas recipes my grandmother followed were
straight out of a single December issue of Gourmet magazine
about 1960. She was a good cook and baker and could follow or
modify a recipe just fine but didn't develop them from scratch
much.
Grandparents' Christmas party held on the 23rd started out as
the Berkeley psychology department graduate students' Christmas
party that they hosted and it gradually became bigger and more
elaborate as they graduated and moved on with their careers and
added family, and other friends got invited as well.
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Re: Barbara's Rum Balls
By: LabPartner Date: October 9, 2023, 12:00 pm
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I imagine this would work with most brown liquors. Maybe not
scotch. Scotch is icky.
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Re: Barbara's Rum Balls
By: kkt Date: October 9, 2023, 12:07 pm
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[quote author=LabPartner link=topic=2224.msg212381#msg212381
date=1696870839]
I imagine this would work with most brown liquors. Maybe not
scotch. Scotch is icky.
[/quote]
Excuse me, but Scotch is NOT icky. I'll agree that it isn't a
very good flavoring for cookies though.
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Re: Barbara's Rum Balls
By: animaniactoo Date: October 9, 2023, 12:32 pm
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[quote author=kkt link=topic=2224.msg212386#msg212386
date=1696871269]
[quote author=LabPartner link=topic=2224.msg212381#msg212381
date=1696870839]
I imagine this would work with most brown liquors. Maybe not
scotch. Scotch is icky.
[/quote]
Excuse me, but Scotch is NOT icky. I'll agree that it isn't a
very good flavoring for cookies though.
[/quote]
If you add lots of butter it is. ;)
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Re: Barbara's Rum Balls
By: Thetis099 Date: October 9, 2023, 12:35 pm
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[quote author=LabPartner link=topic=2224.msg212381#msg212381
date=1696870839]
I imagine this would work with most brown liquors. Maybe not
scotch. Scotch is icky.
[/quote]
Indeed, I have made brandy balls for people who don't like
bourbon or rum. I rolled them in chopped roasted pecans.
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