HOT RUM TODDY

Servings: 12
Ingredients:

1 lb Dark brown sugar                    1 t  White cardamom,
1/2 lb Butter, salted                           -ground
1 t  Nutmeg, ground                           Dark rum, top-quality
1 t  Cinnamon, ground                         -(a standard 'fifth'
1 t  Cloves, ground                           -will serve 12)

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

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