Butter Rum Mints
Grrrrrgh!
Course : Candy
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 1
 

Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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   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
 

Preparation:

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. Serve it with nectar, for this is ambrosia, and you'll be the envy of all who knowsi