Recipe - Rhum And Pepper Paint

2 teaspoon Black peppercorns
4 Whole cloves
2 One half tablespoon Sugar
One fourth cup Soy sauce
One fourth cup White rhum
1 tablespoon Grated lemon zest
2 teaspoon Fresh lemon juice

Toast the peppercorns and cloves together in a dry skillet over mediumhigh
heat until puffs of smoke begin to appear. transfer to a spice grinder and
grind roughly, about 1 minute. Place the sugar, soy sauce, rhum, lemon
zest, and juice in a small heavy saucepan, and add the powdered spices.
Over medium heat, reduce the liquid until One fourth cup remains, about 10 to 12
minutes; it will begin to foam as it reduces. Remove the pan from the heat
and strain through a finemesh strainer into a bowl. Let cool to room
temperature.

Yields: about One fourth cup

MC formatted & Busted by Barb at Possum Kingdom on 3/17/98

NOTES : Air date 3/4/98

Recipe by: Norman Van Aken

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "abprice@wf.net" abprice@wf.net on Mar 17,
1998