Advent Calendar ~ Day 15!

15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas?

Rumballs!

 

Ingredients

 

1 cup finely crushed Nilla wafers (some people use Graham crackers)

1 cup powdered sugar

1½ cups chopped walnuts

2 tbsp. cocoa (sorry, Neth)

2 tbsp. light corn syrup

¼ cup rum

½ (or so) cup fine grain sugar

 

Combine wafer crumbs, powdered sugar, nuts, and cocoa.  Add the corn syrup and mix well.  Shape into 1-inch balls (this gets sticky—you have to wash your hands a lot).  Roll in granulated sugar. Store in airtight container.

 

I used to take these to school for lunch even though OMG TEH ALCOHOL.  They’re sort of ugly and so I’d get a lot of “What the hell is that?”*  But they were a good dessert because most of my friends were Mormon and wouldn’t touch ’em.

 

Another big winner is leftover turkey.  Yes, we do the giant Christmas Day feast with the turkey and the potatoes and the gravy and my god the yams, and yes our grilled turkey is unsurpassed, thanks for asking, but one of my special pleasures is the next day when you can to the kitchen and build sammich consisting of bread, mayonnaise, a tiiiiny bit of salt, and leftover turkey.  Then you go back to reading or playing video games in your pajamas with a delicious turkey sammich.


Happy thing!  My brother is home!  The whole family is back together and geekier than ever!

 

 

*Which is also the response I would get when I took pomegranates to school, back before they became The In Fruit.