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Gather the tallest and narrowest glass you have and an eye dropper.
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Fill your tall, narrow glass with vegetable oil.
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The taller your glass is, the better as the hot rum mixture will travel through to cool off and solidify.
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If the glass is too short, you get a glob of rum jelly.
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Place the glass of oil in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
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Stir 3/4 cup dark rum and 2 grams agar-agar powder in a saucepan on high heat until it just begins to boil.
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Quickly add 1/4 cup brown sugar, stir to dissolve sugar, bring back to a boil, and remove from heat.
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The sugar adds density and makes it sink in the oil.
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Let the rum mixture sit for about 2 minutes and remove the vegetable oil from the freezer.
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Suck up the rum mixture in an eye dropper and squeeze little drops into the cold oil, moving around.
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Dont put every drop right into the middle of your oils surface or it might glob up.
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As the rum collects into spheres, it will become heavy and drop through the oil, cool off, and lay waiting for you to scoop it up from the bottom.
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Work quickly so the rum doesn't solidify in the saucepan.
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If it does solidify, it can be melted again on low heat, stirring constantly, and continue the spherification process.
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Scoop the balls out with a small slotted spoon or pour through a sieve or cheesecloth to collect the spheres from the oil.
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Drop them in cold water for a few seconds to wash the oil off.
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Rum Caviar flavor is milder than straight rum.
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Serving Suggestions:.
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In cocktails that call for rum.
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Use 1.5 times more than the cocktail calls fro as a little of the rum burns off in the cooking.
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Spoon over ice cream and bananas, a cake or banana bread.
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In eggnog for your drinking guests.
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just make a batch of no-alcohol eggnog.
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People will still be talking about it next year!
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Served in a bowl with a small spoon.
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This way, it captures the feel of caviar.
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Store in an airtight container, in the fridge, with a few tablespoons of water at the bottom.
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It should keep several weeks but will likely be consumed way before that.
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Optional: if making a lot you and dont want to go to the hassle of making little balls, just let the mixture cool and solidify in the sauce pan and then take it for a spin in the food processor.
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It will look like little shards of glass.
