Rum Flambeed Strawberries - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pint fresh strawberries
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup sweet sherry
1/3 cup golden rum
1 pint vanilla ice cream
2 tablespoons toasted almonds, chopped

Preparation

Wash, hull and dry the strawberries.
Heat butter in skillet, add sugar. Stir until sugar is golden and melted.
Add the sherry and cook, boiling, until syrup is smooth and free of any crystalized lumps of sugar.
Add strawberries and heat through.
At the table or in the kitchen heat rum slightly. Ignite and pour over berries, stirring juices utnil flame dies down.
Spoon immediately over servings of ice cream. Top with toasted almonds.
Good served with: homemade butter cookies, wafer cookies or ice cream wafers.