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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]What Holiday drink do you like? Here is my favorite drink.[/FONT]
Hot Buttered Rum History
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]A cocktail made with boiling water, sugar and spices is traditionally referred to as a "toddy," and made with whiskey or sherry. Warm alcoholic beverages such as glogg, mulled wine and toddies originated in Northern Europe, where beer, cider, wine and spirits were mulled with sugar and spices to add some cheer to cold winter days.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hot buttered rum is a toddy (specifically, a rum toddy). Toddies can be made of any spirit—bourbon, brandy, tequila, Scotch and other whiskeys are popular. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hot buttered rum was a favorite in Colonial America. Rum is a New World spirit, made of molasses, a by-product of sugar refining. Distilleries in the Colonies were making rum from the molasses by the 1650s, and “hot buttered rum” joined the toddies and nogs of English tradition (a nog is a beverage made of beaten eggs). [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hot buttered rum is traditionally made with dark rum, which has been aged in oak barrels to develop a deeper, molasses flavor. You can use light rum or spiced rum for a milder or spicier flavor, respectively. Dark rums can also be drunk straight. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]You may see photos of, or recipes for, creamy toddies, which add cream or ice cream to the basic recipe. These are new interpretations, not traditional toddies, which were not cream beverages.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]HOT BUTTERED RUM
• 3 cloves (whole)
• 1 1/2 oz. dark rum
• 1 generous tbsp. brown sugar
• 1 Cinnamon stick
¾ mug Boiling water
pat butter
Grated nutmeg
Size of a 25 cent piece Lemon peel
Add boiling water to large mug then add brown sugar, cinnamon stick, and a lemon peel studded with cloves. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Add rum and stir, then place pat of butter on top of drink, and sprinkle with grated nutmeg.
In a Colonial inn, a short rod iron pokers would have been placed in the fire until they were red hot, Then they would have been put into the mug and stirred to heat up the ingredients [/FONT]
Hot Buttered Rum History
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]A cocktail made with boiling water, sugar and spices is traditionally referred to as a "toddy," and made with whiskey or sherry. Warm alcoholic beverages such as glogg, mulled wine and toddies originated in Northern Europe, where beer, cider, wine and spirits were mulled with sugar and spices to add some cheer to cold winter days.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hot buttered rum is a toddy (specifically, a rum toddy). Toddies can be made of any spirit—bourbon, brandy, tequila, Scotch and other whiskeys are popular. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hot buttered rum was a favorite in Colonial America. Rum is a New World spirit, made of molasses, a by-product of sugar refining. Distilleries in the Colonies were making rum from the molasses by the 1650s, and “hot buttered rum” joined the toddies and nogs of English tradition (a nog is a beverage made of beaten eggs). [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hot buttered rum is traditionally made with dark rum, which has been aged in oak barrels to develop a deeper, molasses flavor. You can use light rum or spiced rum for a milder or spicier flavor, respectively. Dark rums can also be drunk straight. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]You may see photos of, or recipes for, creamy toddies, which add cream or ice cream to the basic recipe. These are new interpretations, not traditional toddies, which were not cream beverages.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]HOT BUTTERED RUM
• 3 cloves (whole)
• 1 1/2 oz. dark rum
• 1 generous tbsp. brown sugar
• 1 Cinnamon stick
¾ mug Boiling water
pat butter
Grated nutmeg
Size of a 25 cent piece Lemon peel
Add boiling water to large mug then add brown sugar, cinnamon stick, and a lemon peel studded with cloves. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Add rum and stir, then place pat of butter on top of drink, and sprinkle with grated nutmeg.
In a Colonial inn, a short rod iron pokers would have been placed in the fire until they were red hot, Then they would have been put into the mug and stirred to heat up the ingredients [/FONT]