Rum is poured over the sugar until it is soaked, and then it is lit aflame!
More and more rum is poured onto the flames until all the sugar is dissolved and dripped into the spiced wine. It makes quite a spectacle! You can see below that the rum in the ladle (foreground) has caught fire even before being poured onto the sugar.
This makes for a very yummy and veeeerrrrry potent drink - almost an entire bottle of rum went into this concoction! Being the caramel lover that I am, I enjoyed picking off the caramelized and rummy sugar from the sieve. What a great tradition. Just watch your eyebrows!*Zuckerhut means "sugar hat." So, Germans believe that our Pizza Hut means "pizza hat" and the red thing in the logo is a hat and not the roof of a hut. Or so according to Lucian.
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In the annals of "foods you can set alight" that sounds way better than plum pudding. (I hate to say it, but I really don't like plum pudding that much. I can see how it would have been a fantastic energy boost in the days before central heating, but now it is just - too - much).
Are you still tied up in school work or has your vacation started? I am anxious to know more, especially about your location, since The Hour is approaching and I'd reeeeally like to send you something before then :).
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