Marrow Rum

[Cath B]

While googling recipes for marrow soup (oversized courgettes need using) I chanced upon this recipe:-

Marrow Rum

Cut the top off a good-sized marrow and scoop out the seeds. Pack the cavity with dark brown sugar: a 3lb/1.5kg marrow will hold as much as 2lb/1kg sugar. Make a small hole in the bottom of the marrow with a knitting needle, put the marrow in a nylon stocking and hang it over a bowl. (Mine is suspended from the rungs of an upturned stool, with the bowl sitting on the underside of the seat, and covered loosely with a black bin bag.) Allow the fermenting liquid to drip into the bowl: depending on the size of the marrow, the process will take around two months. Decant the syrupy brown liqueur into bottles. You can drink it straight away or keep it to mature.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/3292157/Readersrecipes-marrow.html

One to have a bash at methinks!

[David B]

Please do:)

I heard of this many years ago, but never tried it.

David

[Cath B]

Yes, I've come across it before too but had forgotten till the recipe reminded me.

[muidiri]

I always thought marrow was the stuff in the middle of bones. Didn't know it had seeds though...

[Cath B]

I always thought marrow was the stuff in the middle of bones. Didn't know it had seeds though...

You live and learn :D

[Cath B]

Dave, Dad said he made marrow rum once years and years ago.

But he can't remember what it was like.

[willynilly]

Marrow is a squash, similar to a large zucchini and marrow is in bone. It makes great soup stock, the bone marrow.

[Cath B]

Beware the marrow bones. They have strange properties (allegedly)

There was a woman in our town and in our town did dwell,
She loved her old man dearly but another man twice as well.

Chorus (after each verse):
And sing fal-the-lal-lal-the-lal-li-day
Fal-the-lal lal-li-day

She went down to the doctor to see if she could find
Anything in the whole world to make her old man blind.

“Oh take him sixteen marrowbones and make him eat them all,
And when he's finished he'll be so blind, he won't see you at all.”

So the doctor he wrote a letter and he sealed it with his hand,
And he sent it up to the old man to make him understand.

But the old man being a crafty bugger he knew it all before,
He ate 'em up and he says, “My dear, oh I can't see you at all.”

Says he, “I'll go to the river and there myself I'll drown.”
Says she, “I'll walk along with you to see that you don't fall down.”

They walked along together till they come to the river's brim,
So gently there she's kissed him and she crept away behind.

She ran and she ran behind him to try to push him in,
But the old man heard and he jumped aside and she went tumbling in.

So loudly she did holler and loud for mercy call,
But the old man says, “I am so blind, I can't see you at all.”

She swam and she swam and she swam around till she came to the further brim,
But the old man got the barge pole and he pushed her further in.

“Oh it may take sixteen marrowbones to make your old man blind,
But if you want to murder him you must creep up close behind.”

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/lloyd/songs/tigeryorum.html

[willynilly]

I like that, lol.

[David B]

Dave, Dad said he made marrow rum once years and years ago.

But he can't remember what it was like.

Bringing back long lost memories. Of a big bag hanging up out at the back.

I think he started to make it, and it it went off, and was thrown away without anyone sampling it.

David

[hecaterin]

From the recipe, it sounds rather like "going off" is the whole point. Uncontrolled fermentation.

[David B]

From the recipe, it sounds rather like "going off" is the whole point. Uncontrolled fermentation.

Indeed!

Well, Cath has the pumpkins, or overgrown courgettes.

I think she should try making it, because if she does I will be up for tasting it.

David