Hot Buttered Rum Recipe


“On cold nights, hot buttered rum is a great drink and positively remedial for folks with colds, influenza, or fatigue or after visits from cousins.”—The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink

8 cups apple cider
6 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
15 whole allspice berries
10 whole cloves
2 cinnamon sticks, broken into small bits
5 tsp. dark honey
4 tbsp. unsalted butter
2 cups dark rum

Boil first 6 ingredients about 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add butter, stir till melted, strain into 8 warm mugs, and divide rum among them.


From The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink edited by Donald Goodman and Thomas Head. Copyright © 2011 by Donald Walter Goodman. Used by permission of the University of North Carolina Press. www.uncpress.unc.edu