East-West Chicken - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 lbs chicken parts
1/4 cup rum
1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup soy sauce
3 scallions, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 cup water, hot
1 cup mushroom, diced
salt
pepper
cornstarch, for thickening

Preparation

Generously sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper to taste. Mix the first 5 ingredient after the chicken and marinate the chicken in them in the refrigerator, covered for at least 1 1/2 hours.
Remove the chicken, reserving marinade. Brown the chicken lightly in the oil and add the brown sugar and hot water and simmer briefly.
Transfer to a roasting pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper and add marinade and bake uncovered at 350 degrees F. for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Add the mushrooms the last 15 minutes of cooking.
Drain off juice and thinken it on stove top with a paste of some cornstarch and cold water. Serve with rice.