Recipe#9883

Title: Buttered Rum 02

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: "Lydia M. Uribe" uribe%jarthur@uunet.UU.NET 
 Subject: Hot buttered rum 
 Message-ID: <2db9v6$i01@jaws.cs.hmc.edu> 
 Date: 28 Nov 1993 22:50:14 GMT 

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 fridge
 in an old tub.  For parties I make up a fresh batch.
 Serves 12
 1 lb dark brown sugar
 1/2 lb salted butter
 1 tsp ground nutmeg
 1 tsp ground cinnamon
 1 tsp ground cloves
 1 tsp ground white cardamom
 750 ml top-quality dark rum (a standard "fifth" bottle, 750ml, will
         serve 12)
 MAKING THE BATTER
 1.  Put all batter ingredients (everything but the rum) in a food
 processor and run it until the stuff 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.
 2.  Scoop the mixture into a leftover container, and refrigerate.  It
 will keep for many months in the refrigerator, even though it contains
 butter.
 MAKING THE DRINKS
 1.  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.
 2.  Add 2 generous tablespoons of batter.  Stir until the batter
 dissolves in the hot water.  I use a small wire whisk for this stirring.
 3.  Add 2 jiggers of the best rum you can afford.  When I make this in
 quantities for parties I like to use Myers Dark Rum.
 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.