| Take forty good chestnuts
and roast them over a slow fire. Do not allow them to become dried up or
colored.
Remove the shells carefully,
put them in a bowl, and pour over them one-half a glass of rum and two
or three tablespoons of powdered sugar.
Set fire to the rum and baste
the chestnuts constantly as long as the rum will burn, turning the chestnuts
about so they will absorb the rum and become colored.
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