Any dark rum will work for this recipe, but if you want to get really authentic, look for rhum agricole, which is French Caribbean rum. While other types of rum are made by distilling molasses, French rum is made by distilling raw sugarcane juice. This results in a grassier, more vegetal after-taste than molasses-distilled rum.
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