Rum Caket

Ingredients • 1 cup chopped walnuts • 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix • 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix • 4 eggs • 1/2 cup water

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil • 1/2 cup dark rum • 1/2 cup butter • 1/4 cup water • 1 cup white sugar • 1/2 cup dark rum

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan. Sprinkle chopped nuts evenly over the bottom of the pan.

2. In a large bowl, combine cake mix and pudding mix. Mix in the eggs, 1/2 cup water, oil and 1/2 cup rum. Blend well. Pour batter over chopped nuts in the pan.

3. Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Let sit for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto serving plate. Brush glaze over top and sides.

Allow cake to absorb glaze and repeat until all glaze is used.

4. To make the glaze: in a saucepan, combine butter, 1/4 cup water and 1 cup sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat and continue to boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup rum.

Prep 30min Cook 1hr Ready in 1hr 30min

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The original Lady Washington was a 90 ton brig. Much of her early history is still unknown, but was is know is that she was part of the Columbia Expedition, leaving Boston on October 1, 1787. She sailed around Cape Horn and participated in the maritime fur trade with the coastal Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest. Then trade of tea and porcelain across the Pacific in China. She was the first American Flagged vessel to round Cape Horn. Another feat was Lady Washington to make landfall on the Oregon coast near what is now Tillamook, Oregon. Named in honor of Martha Washington (the first, First Lady of America), she was captained by Robert Gray and later by John Kendrick; former captain of her larger sailing partner Columbia Rediviva, a privately owned ship.

Lady Washington became the first American vessel to reach the islands Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to move unsold pelts. She remained in the Pacific trade and eventually foundered in the Philippines in 1797. She was lost at the mouth of the Mestizo River, near Vigan, northwest