Rum baba the idea of soaking a dried Gugelhupf (a cake roughly similar to the baba and common in Alsace-Lorraine when he arrived there) or a baba with alcoholic spirit. Another version is that when Stanislaus brought back a baba from one of his voyages it had dried up. Nicolas Stohrer, one of his pâtissiers (or possibly just apprentice pâtissiers at the time), solved the problem by adding Malaga wine, saffron, dried and fresh raisin and crême pâtissière. The writer Courchamps stated in 1839 that the descendants of Stanislaus served the baba with a saucière containing sweet Malaga wine mixed with one
RedLeg Rum RedLeg Rum RedLeg is a spiced rum first launched in the United Kingdom in 2012. It is owned by London-based spirits company Distil Plc, which also owns Blavod Black Vodka and Blackwoods Gin. It is distilled in the Caribbean, left to rest in old oak barrels and infused with Jamaican vanilla and ginger, then shipped to the UK for bottling. Its alcohol by volume is 37.5% (75 proof). The brand incorporates the motif of the Red Leg Hermit Crab that’s native to the Caribbean and is named for its bright legs. RedLeg is marketed globally as a premium spiced rum.