A cocktail.
Since it was cold and snowy outside, I decided to make Martha's Hot Buttered Rum. If you are unfamiliar with this concoction, it's a sweet cocktail, served warm. I've had it before, but never actually made one from scratch. If I had given it any thought, I would have assumed that the "hot butter" portion of the drink was only a buttery flavoring or similar. Possibly a colorful nickname for a more sober (no pun intended) drink.
It's not.
The recipe is basically brown sugar mixed with a bunch of spices and a stick of butter. Yes, a stick of butter. Pour rum and hot water over the butter mixture and it's done. "Hot Buttered Rum" is pretty much just that: hot, buttered, rum.
It's also hot, buttery deliciousness. I would have drank about a dozen of them, but since I had made the first recipe, I knew each one was the equivalent of eating a couple tablespoons of butter. One look at my hips made me re-think making more than one batch.
Oh, but I wanted to.
p.s. this is Martha's photo above. For some reason, my computer did not like the photos I took of my own Hot Buttered Rum. :sigh:
Hot buttered YUM!!!
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