Thursday, July 15, 2010

Dark and stormy

A friend and I are making rum. We made the molasses and yeast mixture a few days ago, and now my kitchen smells like fermentation and sugar. It'll be clear when we distill it, but we're going to put it in smaller jars and spice each one individually. Mostly they'll have clove, allspice, cinnamon, maybe some cardamom and I'm going to try one with cayenne.

Speaking of things that are delicious and spicy, I've recently fallen in love with ginger beer and want to try my hand at making some. We have everything necessary except ginger root.

I will definitely combine the two for an entirely home-made dark and stormy. Mmm.