“I saw the recipe for Christmas rum balls in this morning’s Sunday Telegram. I must print because my cursive writing is illegible. I am 89 years old and now reside in assisted living in Casco, Maine.

“For several years, I have (been) making rum fudge from a secret recipe that could only be found on the back of a 1-pound Domino Confectioners 10X Sugar box. The only change I made: Changing the vanilla extract (1 tablespoon) to 1 tablespoon of rum extract.”—NANCY POLAND, Casco

RUM FUDGE

Recipe courtesy of Domino. Nancy Poland says, “Only add nuts if you like.”

Makes 2 dozen

1 pound Domino Confectioners 10X Sugar

6 tablespoons butter or margarine

½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

¼ cup milk

1 tablespoon rum extract

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup chopped pecans

In a medium saucepan, heat sugar, butter, cocoa, milk, rum extract and salt over low heat, stirring until smooth. Stir in nuts if you like. Spread mixture quickly in buttered 9 by 5-inch loaf pan. Cool. Cut into squares.

Mainers, tell us what you’re cooking

Mainers, what are you cooking this winter while you hunker down at home to wait out this virus? Your mom’s chicken soup for comfort and consolation? Have you joined the sourdough brigade? Or has pandemic fatigue set in so you’re making the fastest, simplest meal you can devise?

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