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California Farm Cranberry Rum Cake

Name: How to cook California Farm Cranberry Rum Cake - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 people, ten thick slices
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Cranberry Rum Cake

Rum alcohol evaporates, leaving only the fragrance and flavor, enriching this cake and the cranberries. Cooking rum is one part rum and 3 parts water. I use low alcohol light cooking rum made from cane syrup to soak the cranberries and make the cake. Cranberry rum cake is lighter and less sweet than raisin rum cake. Slices of rum cake served with banana ice cream on top, a great home made dessert for guests. Freezes well in thick slices wrapped in parchment paper.

Ingredient

Food ration :

4 people, ten thick slices

Cooking time :

1 1/2 hour to bake and cool, overnight berry soak

2 cups

cake flour

1 cup

soaked cranberries and their cooking rum

fresh farm egg

1 cup

light brown sugar

1 Tbs

Unsalted butter

1 Tsp

Baking powder

1/4 Tsp

Flaked sea salt sprinkled on top of batter before baking

1 Tsp

lemon curd

1/4 Tsp

each ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg

1 cup

Low alcohol light cooking rum, use 1/4 cup regular rum and 3/4 cup water to make 1 cup of cooking rum

1 cup

Dried cranberries

1 gallon

cane syrup makes a gallon of rum beer, called a wash

1 Tbs

brewers yeast

1 gallon

wash first makes 2 cups of unpure rum, to be disposed of, and 2 cups of pure light cooking rum

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Dilute regular 80 proof rum to 20 proof rum with water to make cooking rum, or make cooking rum from scratch. Cut sugar cane in 8” lengths. Split sugar canes in four with cleaver. Set upright in tall dutch oven, boil and simmer in a gallon of water. Makes one gallon syrupy water. Boil second time. Flip sugar canes upside down, top water off to submerge canes. Use gallon syrup water cooled, ferment with brewers yeast to make 5% rum beer, called rum wash.

* Step 2

Pour rum wash into water distiller, distill to cooking rum, 10 to 20 proof. Makes four cups. Discard first two cups in septic system or sewer, use second two cups. Dry and store the cooked canes, use in winter for firewood or barbecue grill.

* Step 3

Soak cup of dry cranberries in cup of cooking rum till swollen and plump, usually takes overnight. Put soaked cranberries in batter in dough maker with any left over cooking rum from soaking cranberries.

* Step 4

Mix cake flour, brown sugar, baking powder, soaked cranberries, unsalted butter, lemon curd, spices, till you have a thick batter. Rub olive oil inside your baking form, pour batter in, Let rise till doubled under kitchen towel on counter or in air fryer at 140F degrees, 30 minutes.

* Step 5

Turn air fryer oven up to 350F degrees. Sprinkle flaked salt on top. Bake 45 minutes, cool, slice in sandwich bread thick slices. Wrap each slice in parchment paper if freezing. Freezes well.