Broiled Pineapple With Rum

Ingredients:

Prepare an average sized pineapple, cut into wedges or rings
Brown sugar, as much as needed
1/4 cup rum

Steps:

1) Spread the pineapple slices into one layer in a ceramic or glass baking dish, sprinkle lightly with brown sugar and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about ten minutes.

2)  When the pineapple begins to brown a bit, remove it from the oven.

3)  Heat 1/4 cup of rum in a small saucepan and pour the rum over the pineapple slices.  Strike a match, carefully light the rum and flame the fruit.  When the flame subsides, serve the pineapple warm from the dish, or at room temperature.

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*  Smaller pineapples tend to be sweeter.  One way to test for ripeness is to pull the center leaf out of the crown.  If it removes easily, it is ripe.

* To clean the pineapple, use a serrated knife and cut off the top and bottom of the fruit, then peel away the skin along the curves.  Next remove the "eyes" that run around the exterior in a spiral, using a sharp paring knife.  Work around the pineapple in a circular spiral fashion.

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