Time for a Drink: Hot Buttered Rum

From Recipes Let’s start the weekend right–with a cocktail recipe from Paul Clarke ( The Cocktail Chronicles ). Need more than one? Hit up the archives. Cheers! Until very recently, I found the concept of hot-buttered rum more appealing than the reality hot-buttered rum. While I like each of the components named in the drink—heat (which is especially welcome in early January), butter, of course, and rum (what’s not to like)—the idea of mixing them together into a warm, boozy drink topped with a slick of butterfat always deterred me from actually making it. But this recent holiday season, while needing something warm but wanting something out of my usual rotation, I gave the drink a spin and discovered that with a little TLC, the hot-buttered rum in your mug can turn out as good as the one in your imagination. While you can purchase hot-buttered rum batter in a supermarket, as a general rule I’d suggest you try making your own. I wound up trying several versions, as well as reviewing a number of recipes, some of which call for as few ingredients as rum, hot water, butter and sugar, while others were more replete with spices, flavorings …
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