Happy St. Nicholas Day!
It's drawing close to Christmastime! This year, I've got a brand-new festive holiday cocktail to share with you all! 2020 has been a hard year, so pour a delicious warm drink, turn on "Fireplace for Your Home", and ask Alexa to play "Instrumental Christmas" as you join me in my new Christmas tradition: sharing a holiday drink with the readers of my blog!
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Those old New Englanders sure did love rum. In fact, some historians estimate that American men drank an average of three pints of rum every week before the Revolution. With cheap, cheap rum coming in from colonial holdings in Jamaica and the Bahamas, and even some rum (of dubious quality) being produced in the New England colonies themselves, it's no wonder that many of the earliest American cocktails were made with the stuff.
Last year I started a new tradition of writing about a holiday drink with my very own mulled wine recipe. This year, I'm featuring a rich, spicy, warming drink: hot buttered rum.
Hot Buttered Rum (traditional)
Ingredients
1 C brown sugar (I used Thai caramelized raw sugar)
2 sticks (8oz) unsalted butter
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
allspice, nutmeg, cloves to taste
spiced rum (I used Captain Morgan Gold)
cinnamon stick for garnish (optional)
Step 1: make spiced sugar
I used some Thai caramelized raw sugar, which added an extra toasty sweetness to the drink. I mixed my spices in with the sugar.
Mix the unsalted butter with the spiced sugar until it forms a batter. It is very important that the butter be room-temperature, otherwise it'll be impossible to mix! You can store your batter in the refrigerator for the whole holiday season.
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| mixing up a butter batter |
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| a jar of festive butter batter |
Step 3: make your hot buttered rum
You can make your drink to taste. I like one tbsp of batter to 2oz of spiced rum. Spiced rum isn't necessary, but it adds a lot of vanilla and other holiday flavors that just taste like Christmas. Add the batter and rum into a mug, top with hot water, stir, and garnish with a cinnamon stick or star anise (optional).
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It was my first time making a hot buttered rum. Overall, I'm really happy with it! It's really tasty, and very nice on a cold winter night (not that I would know, living in Bangkok and all). However, there's another recipe that I'd like to try. Maybe this year I'll experiment a bit and try out another version. Stay tuned for more festive cheer!
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