Coffee Liqueur (Cape Verde Islands) Licor De Cafe - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb roasted coffee beans
1 liter white rum
1 lb sugar
2 cups water

Preparation

Set a few coffee beans aside, then place the rest of the coffee beans into the rum and allow them to infuse for eight days.
Place the sugar in a small saucepan and add the 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil, and cook until you have a thin syrup. allow syrup to chill.
Add the syrup to the coffee mixture, and mix well.
Pour the liqueur off into small decorative bottles.
Add a few coffee beans to each bottle and allow the liquer to age 3 weeks or longer before seving in tiny cordial glasses as an after-dinner drink.