Saturday, December 3, 2011

Rum Balls! Rum Balls!



Yes, rum balls: It’s Christmas cookie time!

I had some vanilla wafers left over from making orange balls (which I personally can’t have Christmas without), so I made half a batch of rum balls. Rum balls!




No, I don’t drink anymore, but eating a cookie doesn’t really count as “drinking.” Right? . . . Okay, okay, I know—too close for comfort. But other people will enjoy them!

I used my Grandma Schroeder’s recipe, which I’ll simply present to you via a photograph of the recipe itself, which is in her handwriting.




Note that her recipe calls for “hootch.” —HOOTCH!




I measured out the rum very carefully. (Bwah-ha-ha!) And if you can’t quite read the recipe, I recommend sampling a bit of the rum and trying again!




There are more cookies still to come—the lebkuchen and the springerles!

So . . . more soon.

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4 comments:

  1. Osage Bluff QuilterDecember 3, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    I will hold off for the lebkuchen and the springerles. Those are two of my favorites!

    Waitin' for the snow . . .

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  2. AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 2:13 PM

    What is the measurement of the v. cookies?

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  3. Diane KimberDecember 4, 2011 at 9:12 AM

    Hey Julie!
    We are making bourbon balls today. But I feel like we should also make G-ma's rum balls too -YUM!

    Can you send me the orange balls recipe?

    Looking forward to the Leppies 'n Springers posts.

    Thanks, Diane

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  4. Julianna SchroederDecember 4, 2011 at 5:22 PM

    Hi, thanks, you all! I've got the lebkuchen dough made and mellowing on the back porch--we plan to roll, bake, and ice them tonight.

    I'm making two different recipes of leppies: one is great-grandma Thomas's recipe, and one is my mother's recipe: Hers is one that everyone, and I mean everyone, agrees are the best-tasting leppies ever.

    Springerles will be soon--I do have my grandma's/great-grandma's recipe for springerles, but I make them from a 1940s Good Housekeeping recipe, because it seems foolproof. Here's my post on springerles:

    http://opulentopossum.blogspot.com/2009/12/righteous-german-soul-food-christmas.html

    Anon: have a schluck or two of rum, and the recipe will be easy to read! Okay: it IS kind of sloppy, since she added "3 T white syrup" as an afterthought. Here is the recipe, interpreted:

    3 cups ground vanilla wafers
    3 tablespoons white syrup [I had none, so substituted honey--and I added it same time as the other "wet" ingredient, below--I recommend combining all the dry ingredients first]
    1 cup ground pecans
    1 cup powdered sugar
    1 1/2 tablespoon cocoa powder
    1/2 cup rum

    Mix; roll into balls; dust with powdered sugar.

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