This year, National Rum Day is on a weekend (Today!), so you can celebrate all day long (assuming you don't have a weekend job that expects you to come in sober). Woman's Home Companion Cook Book (edited by Dorothy Kirk, 1955) has some recipes to help you start early.
If you like sweet rolls in the morning, try making rum rolls the night before.
Granted, they only use rum flavoring, and even if you had used real rum, it would bake off anyway. But you could use real rum in the rum confectioners' frosting.
That's a whole teaspoon in a batch of frosting that will cover (at least) a whole panful of rolls.
Well, you'll need protein anyway to go with those rolls, so maybe the rum omelet will help you give your breakfast a higher proof.
This uses 2-3 tablespoons of rum! But it's for 4-6 servings. And most of the alcohol will get burned off anyway when you ignite it. So, okay, this breakfast is probably fine even if you do have to go to work sober (assuming you can handle this much sugar first thing in the morning).
The more I look at it, the biggest thrill this menu is likely to provide is the chance to accidentally set your kitchen aflame when you're half-asleep, fumbling with rum and matches. You're probably better off with a much simpler solution if you want to start your celebration early-- put a little rum in your coffee. Your not-on-fire curtains will thank you.
I make lots of omelets, but I don't bother watering down my eggs, and I certainly don't add sugar or alcohol to them. Now I feel like I need to go find a video of Julia Child or Jacque Pepin making an omelet to verify how "French" that recipe really is.
ReplyDeleteConsidering how expensive coffee is getting to be, maybe suggest people put some rum in their breakfast coke.
I have no ideas about the price of coffee. I guess it shows! (My preferred morning drink is a zero sugar Kroger-brand pop called Citrus Drop.)
DeleteI get the feeling that parenthetical note happened after a lot of people caused expensive damage by trying to set their breakfast on fire before the coffee kicked in.
ReplyDeleteThat could be it! Woman's Home Companion had to cover their asses.
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