I started my marrow rum two weeks ago after stealing a nicely ironed pillow case from the wife's airing cupboard and high-tailing to my sister's house.  It now hangs in her dining room filled with the demerara sugar but having read the above post, I've just realised something.  I forgot the yeast.

Can I add the yeast when I stick it in the demijohn?

I ought to go and visit it really but I'm sure Sis will let me know if anything crazy happens.

Thank you for that.  I'm visiting the marow on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning, the wife is away and I thought it might may a bit of a day out for the kids, ha ha.  I'll take yeast with me, I have bread making yeast which I assume (wrongly or not) to be similar enough to brewing yeast as makes no difference.  I'm nervous now as the marrow was grown for this purpose and to ruin it at this stage would be disasterous.  I keep hearing the words, "make a good marrow rum and you'll have folk songs written about you", in my head over and over.  I really hope for the folk song thing; what a legacy!

Visited the marrow yesterday, sis said she'd prodded it and it seemed solid, we then found a weak point.  Inside there was a generous layer of blue fluff but undeterred we topped it up with some yeast and a bit more sugar, I tell you if you could only smell it, definitely alcohol.  We fished out the remaining seeds which had floated to the top and re-secured the lid.  Marrow was then put back in its pillowcase shroud, stood on a short piece of wide pipe to stop it falling over and to keep it vertical.  Now I'm wondering should I have scraped out the mould?  Sis said that blue mould doesn't hurt "after all you eat stilton don't you...yuk".  But now I'm not so sure, don't mind the mould but will it damage the rum?

New drink possibly.... but exquisite?  I guess that may be asking too much.  I'm starting to think that in my haste I may have just wrecked the biggest marrow I've ever grown.  Short of boiling and trying serve it up as food that is.

B****R

Progress report from sis; more mould and references to blue cheese.

This drink may not work as a shot or tot but could go well with digestive biscuits.  Who knows?

Experiments don't fail, they just have variable outcomes.

Yesterday sis and I strained marrow and put it into a demijohn with some extra yeast and sugar because we had some left.  We tasted it and it wasn't too bad but then it is mainly sugar.  It's on the work top at the moment bubbling away to itself, all very encouraging.  We're going to clear an area in the airing cupboard, put marrow in and then forget about it until next Christmas