Rum Caviar
- 34 cup dark rum
- 2 g agar-agar, powder (Asian markets, ethnic section of some grocery stores, or from Amazon)
- 14 cup brown sugar
- 20 ounces vegetable oil
- Gather the tallest and narrowest glass you have and an eye dropper.
- Fill your tall, narrow glass with vegetable oil.
- The taller your glass is, the better as the hot rum mixture will travel through to cool off and solidify.
- If the glass is too short, you get a glob of rum jelly.
- Place the glass of oil in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
- Stir 3/4 cup dark rum and 2 grams agar-agar powder in a saucepan on high heat until it just begins to boil.
- Quickly add 1/4 cup brown sugar, stir to dissolve sugar, bring back to a boil, and remove from heat.
- The sugar adds density and makes it sink in the oil.
- Let the rum mixture sit for about 2 minutes and remove the vegetable oil from the freezer.
- Suck up the rum mixture in an eye dropper and squeeze little drops into the cold oil, moving around.
- Dont put every drop right into the middle of your oils surface or it might glob up.
- As the rum collects into spheres, it will become heavy and drop through the oil, cool off, and lay waiting for you to scoop it up from the bottom.
- Work quickly so the rum doesn't solidify in the saucepan.
- If it does solidify, it can be melted again on low heat, stirring constantly, and continue the spherification process.
- Scoop the balls out with a small slotted spoon or pour through a sieve or cheesecloth to collect the spheres from the oil.
- Drop them in cold water for a few seconds to wash the oil off.
- Rum Caviar flavor is milder than straight rum.
- Serving Suggestions:.
- In cocktails that call for rum.
- Use 1.5 times more than the cocktail calls fro as a little of the rum burns off in the cooking.
- Spoon over ice cream and bananas, a cake or banana bread.
- In eggnog for your drinking guests.
- just make a batch of no-alcohol eggnog.
- People will still be talking about it next year!
- Served in a bowl with a small spoon.
- This way, it captures the feel of caviar.
- Store in an airtight container, in the fridge, with a few tablespoons of water at the bottom.
- It should keep several weeks but will likely be consumed way before that.
- Optional: if making a lot you and dont want to go to the hassle of making little balls, just let the mixture cool and solidify in the sauce pan and then take it for a spin in the food processor.
- It will look like little shards of glass.
dark rum, agaragar, brown sugar, vegetable oil
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/rum-caviar-468624 (may not work)