Warm-Spiced Pecans with Rum Glaze

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1999, America's Test Kitchen TV

We discovered how to get maximum flavor with minimum mess.

SERVES 8 (Makes about 2 cups)

TIME 45 minutes, plus 20 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

While developing a tasty but neat spiced nuts recipe, we eliminated two popular methods—boiling the nuts in syrup and tossing them in butter—straight off. The former made the nuts sticky, and the latter dulled their flavor. A third method, ...

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