Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Sugar Loaf Cordial*

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Puerto Rican Cookery
Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

  • About

Ingredients

  • 1 large ripe orange
  • 1 cup white Puerto Rican 86 proof rum
  • 1 tablespoon

Method

  1. Wash and scrub orange. Peel around in one long, thin slice without breaking. Discard the peeled orange.
  2. In the center of a heat-proof deep dish, arrange the peel to simulate the orange and fill the interior with the sugar.
  3. Pour rum around sugar loaf to form an island.
  4. Saturate the sugar mound and orange peel with 1 tablespoon of 151 p