Rum baba and became a popular Neapolitan specialty under the name "babà" or "babbà". The pastry has appeared on restaurant menus in the United States since 1899, if not earlier. In 1844, the Julien Brothers, Parisian pâtissiers, invented the Savarin, which is strongly inspired by the "baba au rhum" but is soaked with a different alcoholic mixture and uses a circular (ring) cake mould instead of the simple round (cylindrical) form. The ring form is nowadays often associated with the "baba au rhum" as well, and the name "Savarin" is also sometimes given to the rum-soaked circular cake. Rum baba A rum
Rum Cay Cay. The population of Rum Cay as of 2015 is 53. Rum Cay is 20 miles (32 km) southwest of San Salvador Island. Rum Cay was called Mamana by the native Lucayans. In the north there is a cave containing Lucayan drawings and carvings. Various artifacts from the Arawak period have been found by farmers in the fertile soil, which the natives enriched with bat guano. Rum Cay is believed to be the second island that Columbus visited in 1492, which he called Santa Maria de la Concepción. Spanish explorers once found a lone rum keg washed up on a