{"id":650,"date":"2011-11-20T00:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T00:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=650"},"modified":"2011-11-20T02:45:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T02:45:49","slug":"rum-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Rum Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only make these at Christmas time…the only trouble is? I can never make enough!<\/p>\n

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Family Tradition - Rum Balls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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1 cup Milk
\n2 cups Sugar
\n2\/3 cup Butter (125g…coz I usually measure third cups on the scale…no convenient third \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0cup line markings on the pounds of butter!)<\/p>\n

6 Tablespoons Cocoa
\n2 Teaspoons Vanilla
\nSome Rum! I never measure, I just pour in the Bundy Rum!
\n6 cups Quick Rolled Oats
\n2 cups Fine Coconut
\n1\/2 cup chopped Raisins
\n1\/2 ground Walnuts <—I rarely add these coz my kids won’t let me use them<\/p>\n

2 cups Fine Coconut for coating Rum Balls.<\/p>\n

In medium mixing bowl combine rolled oats, coconut, chopped raisins and ground walnuts; set aside.
\nIn large saucepan melt the butter; stir in sugar, cocoa and milk.
\nStir constantly until bubbly.
\nRemove from heat and stir in Rum and combined dry ingredients.
\nShape generous teaspoonfuls of mixture into balls; roll in coconut.
\nStore in airtight container in refrigerator.<\/p>\n

Yield: 4 Dozen Rum Balls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only make these at Christmas time…the only trouble is? I can never make enough!   1 cup Milk 2 cups Sugar 2\/3 cup Butter (125g…coz I usually measure third cups on the scale…no convenient third \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0cup line markings … Continue reading Rum Balls<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow-me-through-my-cooking-journey","category-christmas-cookies-and-other-delights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}