Rum Baba
Essentially Rum Babas are enriched sweet bread/buns, soaked in a sweet syrup.
There not just for eating with a kebab - you can make them at home, and there really nice too.
Preparation time: 30 minutes plus rising time Quantity: Serves 4 Cooking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
100g/ 4 oz plain flour
1 large eggs
1/2 packet dried yeast (approx. 5g)
1 tablespoon sugar
1-2 tablespoon warm water
50g/ 2 oz melted butter
50g/ 2 oz currants
60 ml/ 2 fl oz water
30g/ 1 oz caster sugar
2 teaspoons dark rum (optional)
Method
- Sift the flour
- Mix in the eggs, yeast, 1st sugar and 1st water
- Make a wet, sticky dough
- Cover with a damp tea towel and leave somewhere warm to rise. About 15-20 minutes
- Beat in the melted butter, and mix in the currants
- Spoon in to greased individual metal moulds, 3/4 full
- Leave somewhere warm to rise - to the top of the mould
- Bake in a pre heated oven gas 5-6/200*c/400*f - for 12-15 minutes or until, golden and firm
- Meanwhile boil the 2nd water, rum (op) and sugar
- Pour 1/2-1 tablespoon of syrup on to each hot baba
- Cool - turnout and serve with cream