Hot Buttered Rum Recipe [moved from Boston Board]
One of my favorites is hot buttered rum, which I came across in an old edition of joy of cooking. From memory, I think it was 1 tbl butter, 1 tbl brown sugar, 1/4c rum and 1 cup boiling water poured on top. Simple, hot and delicious.
tdaaa
Oct 09, 2006 05:46PM
From the old "Trader Vic's Book of Food and Drink" (1946, I believe) I always use this recipe, which makes a big batch of batter you can use to make MANY mugs of hot butteredf rum. I usually make it in october/november, and I'm scraping the last out in april, when it's getting too warm for the drink anyway. Or, maybe it'll make enough for one huge hot buttered rum orgy:
1 lb. brown sugar
1/4 lb. butter
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp each ground nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves
cream the butter and sugar together until smooth, as you would for a cake,
then add the spices and mix well.
I keep it in a tupperware container in the fridge.
Put one or two teaspoons of batter in a mug, add a shot of rum to it, then fill with 6oz of boiling water. Toss in a cinnamon stick and stir well.
It'll be the best - the Joy of cooking method leaves you with a greasy oil slick of butter on the top of the drink (which, by the way, Vic hated).
I prefer a dark rum, like Gosling's Black Seal, but any rum will do.
If you use 151 proof rum, the drink is called a Northwest Passage, and coffee instead of water makes it a Coffee Grog.
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Oh, I have the best recipe for Hot Buttered Rum. It's from an old Gourmet cookbook. The secret is the maple cream. Trust me on this. I wrote more about this on my blog recently -- scroll down and you'll find it
http://madisonandmayberry.typepad.com...
Hot Buttered Rum
1 mug 2/3 full of hot water
2 big spoonfuls of maple cream (or maple syrup
)a few cloves
a couple sprinkles of cinnamon and nutmeg
a pat of butter
a healthy dose of rum, depending on your taste
juice from half a lemon
Stir maple cream into the hot water, letting it dissolve. Add in cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, lemon juice and rum. Top with a pat or two of butter. Add a lemon slice and even a cinnamon stick.
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The lemon and maple cream are pushing it more in to the "Hot Toddy" catagory, but it sounds delicious - I'll have try that one. I'm always on the lookout for good hot drinks!
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