Cocktail recipe

Hot Buttered Rum

A built cocktail featuring Dark Rum, Batter, Water.

Hot Buttered Rum cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1.75 oz Dark Rum
  • 2 tbsp Hot Buttered Rum Batter
  • 1 Water

Method

  1. Warm a heatproof mug with hot water, then empty it.
  2. Add the measured hot-buttered-rum Hot Buttered Rum Batter and enough hot water to loosen it.
  3. Stir in the rum and add more hot water to taste, mixing until the Hot Buttered Rum Batter is fully incorporated. Serve warm without ice.
  4. Optional garnish: cinnamon stick.

Story

A colonial New England drink from the days when rum was America's spirit and butter was a plausible thing to put in a hot toddy.