Made a new Christmas Candy this year: Eggnog Truffles!
On Dec 8, 2:20*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Dec 8, 3:29*pm, sueb > wrote:
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> > That sounds good. *Did you use 1/2 cup or 1/4 cup of rum? *Did you
> > melt the white chocolate before adding it?
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> > Susan B.
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> 1/2 cup Myer's dark rum. There are probably better more flavorful dark
> rums, but this is what they had at the grocery store.
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> I gently boiled the rum first to reduce it's liquid volume primarily.
> Probably evaporated most of the alcohol too, but like I said I wanted
> to reduce the liquid volume.Then I added 1 cup of eggnog and mixed and
> brought that to a boil, then I added the white chocolate and p-sug.
> (May leave out the p-sug next year.) And I let the heat of the boiled
> eggnog/reduced rum melt the white chocolate, which was in small pieces
> to start with. Just like I do for regular chocolate truffles only I
> use 40% cream as the liquid.
>
> John Kuthe...
Thanks!
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