Recipe - Hot Rum Toddy

1 pound Dark brown sugar
One half pound Butter, salted
1 teaspoon Nutmeg, ground
1 teaspoon Cinnamon, ground
1 teaspoon Cloves, ground
1 teaspoon White cardamom,
ground
Dark rum, topquality
(a standard "fifth"
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 madeup batch of the batter in the
refrigerator in an old margarine tub. For parties I make up a fresh batch.

* One theory of hottoddy 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 hottoddy 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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