Recipe - Caramelized Pineapple With Rum

1 lg Pineapple
4 tablespoon Unsalted butter
6 tablespoon Packed brown sugar;
preferably dark
One fourth cup Plus 1 tablespoon rum;
preferably dark

ACCOMPANIMENT
Ice cream

Preheat broiler and line a shallow baking pan with foil.

Trim pineapple leaves to about 2inches. Quarter pineapple lengthwise and
cut and discard cores. With a sharp knife cut fruit from rinds, keeping
rinds intact and reserving them. Cut pineapple crosswise into 1/4inch
thick slices.

In a saucepan cook butter, 4 tablespoons brown sugar, and rum over moderate
heat, stirring, 1 minute. Add pineapple, stirring to coat, and cook mixture
1 minute.

Put reserved rinds in baking pan and with a fork and spoon return pineapple
pieces to rinds, arranging in original shape. Spoon remaining butter
mixture over pineapple and sprinkle tops with remaining 2 tablespoons brown
sugar. Broil pineapple about 3inches from heat until slightly charred and
heated through, about 8 minutes. Serve caramelized pineapple with ice
cream.

Yield: 4 servings

NOTES : Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL9058

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@comteck.com on Feb 7, 1998