Rum Glazed Nuts
This recipe makes seriously tasty snacks: ideal for parties and appetizers. This is a modification from the 1981 Edition of the Better Homes and Gardens, New Cook Book.
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Rum Glazed Nuts
Ingredients
2 cups blanched whole nuts (almonds, cashews, macadamia, peanuts, pecans)
½ cup sugar
2 Tbsp butter (or margarine)
2-4 Tbsp rum (or whiskey
½ Tsp vanilla
Directions
1. in a heavy 10-inch skillet, combine together nuts, sugar and butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, about 9 minutes until sugar melts and turns a rich brown color.
2. Once sugar melts, if it is reluctant to glaze the nuts and turn that rich brown color, add 1 tbsp of rum. If a glaze still hasn’t formed, add 1 remaining tbsp of rum.
3. Remove heat and stir in vanilla.
4. Spread nuts on a buttered baking sheet; separate into individual nuts. Cool.
Note 1: if 2 tbsp of rum isn’t sufficient to turn the sugar glaze liquid, add a bit more as necessary.
