Savvybearcat.com

Save to favorite Discuss Hot Rum Toddy recipe

Write a comment Print Hot Rum Toddy recipe

Print this recipe Email Hot Rum Toddy recipe to friend

Email this recipe

Hot Rum Toddy

Category: Drinks

Author: The Savvybearcat

Date: 1/1/2007

Rating:

(4.0) by 2 users

Ingredients:

1 lb Dark brown sugar
1/2 lb Butter, salted
1 tsp Nutmeg, ground
1 tsp Cinnamon, ground
1 tsp Cloves, ground
1 tsp White cardamom, ground
Dark rum, top-quality (a standard "fifth" will serve 12)

Instructions:

MAKING THE BATTER: Put all batter ingredients (everything but the
rum) in a food processor and run it until the mixture turns creamy.
Fold it down once with a rubber spatula to make sure the spices are
blended in, and run the food processor some more.

Scoop the mixture into a plastic container, and refrigerate. It will
keep for many months in the refrigerator, even though it contains
butter.

MAKING THE DRINKS: Fill a coffee mug half full of boiling water. The
easiest way to do this is to put a mug of hot water in the microwave.
If you don't have a microwave, then fill the mug with boiling water,
pour it out, then fill it half full of boiling water.

Add about 2 generous tablespoons of batter. Stir until the batter
dissolves in the hot water. I use a small wire whisk for this
stirring.

Add 2 jiggers (about 3 oz) of the best rum you can afford. When I
make this in quantities for parties I like to use Myers Dark Rum.

NOTES:

* Ultimate hot buttered rum recipe -- I started making hot buttered
rum from a Trader Vic recipe 15 years ago, and I have gradually
evolved it by adding more spices, more butter and less rum.

The way you make a hot buttered rum is to add some "batter" to some
rum, and heat it. I like to keep a made-up batch of the batter in the
refrigerator in an old margarine tub. For parties I make up a fresh
batch.

* One theory of hot-toddy making is that it is impossible to use too
much batter, and you should keep stirring more in until you are bored
with stirring. Another theory of hot-toddy making is that it is
impossible to use too much rum, and that you should keep stirring in
more until your friends panic.

: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 5 minutes.
: Precision: no need to measure.

: Brian Reid
: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA

: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust
: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM