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    Mints: Butter Rum Mints


    Source of Recipe


    Mrs. Robert Austin

    List of Ingredients




    2 cups sugar
    2/3 cup hot water
    1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
    1 teaspoon vinegar
    1 tablespoon rum
    1 tablespoon cold butter
    1/2 teaspoon spearmint flavor

    Recipe



    Take sugar and water for a starter, to it add vinegar and cream of tartar. Boil rapidly and do not stir, til 260 temp. is reached. Remove the syrup after ists bouled and pout it over a surface youve oiled. (on a marble slab if possible) With broken cold butter; then you do it and and a full 3 minutes you allot it. Fold over the edges when it is cool with a candy scraper or a kitchen tool; Now sprinkle in rum and flovor of mint, and your ready for the pulling stint. then make a rope from there to here, and cut into pillows with a kitchen shear. Drop them into sugar for a couple of days, In a seal tight jar for the ripening phase.

 

 

 

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