Baba Au Rhum

Name: Baba Au Rhum (Cake With Rum)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: For the syrup which is poured over it: 6 ozs. of lump sugar; 1 gill of water, and 6 tablespoons of rum; 1 gill of water, and 6 tablespoons of rum; 1½ level tablespoons of sugar; a pinch of salt; 3 ozs. of stoned raisins; For the syrup which is poured over it: 6 ozs. of lump sugar; 3 large eggs or 4 small ones; 3 ozs. of butter; 3 tablespoons of unboiled, but warm milk; 1 level tablespoon of yeast; ½ lb. of flour

Cake With Rum

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes of all Nations

By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

About

Ingredients

½ lb. of flour
1 level tablespoon of yeast
3

Europe
France
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour in a terrine or a salad bowl, and make a well in the centre. Put the yeast in the middle and with the fingers mix with the warm milk and a little of the flour. Cover the yeast lightly with the flour and let it stand for 5 or 6 minutes. Now add the eggs, which should have been well mixed in a basin, and work with the hands for a few minutes, adding another tablesp