Hot Buttered Rum
Ingredients
Method
In a pan, heat the sugar, clove and butter. Add the rum. Gently tip into a toddy glass or mug, discarding the clove, top up with hot water. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.
Raise your spirits with our delicious hot buttered rum recipe - a classic winter warmer.
When Jack Frost starts nipping at your nose and the holidays are in full swing, it’s time to cosy up with a hot butter rum drink. This classic cocktail is perfect for Christmas, New Year’s Eve, or unwinding after a snowy walk when only a comforting hug in a mug will do.
With roots in Colonial America, hot rum butter drinks date back to the seventeenth century, when ingenious New Englanders blended Caribbean rum with warming butter, sugar, and spices to beat the cold. The drink eventually sailed across the Atlantic, earning a mention in Dickens’ Hard Times, and spreading cheer with every steaming mug.
Our hot buttered rum recipe starts with gently heating the sugar, cloves and butter in a pan, followed by your rum and then topped off with a drop of hot water. Add a cinnamon stick and let the spices mingle - creating a buttery, boozy potion that will warm you up from the inside out, one sip at a time. Rich and smooth yet peppy with spice, this drink is as festive as mince pies and just as fun.
This butter rum drink is endlessly customisable - swap muscovado for brown sugar, add orange peel for citrus zing, or try steeping a star anise into the pan if you fancy. It’s great on its own, but if you want to take full advantage of seasonal indulgence, our hot buttered rum recipe is great with the fiery heat of ginger biscuits or with Rosemary Schrager’s classic Christmas pudding to finish your day in style. And if you want more festive drinks, try a spiced hot chocolate with the flavours of cardamom and curry powder, a Christmassy mulled red wine sangria or a bourbon or rum-laced hot eggnog for your next festive fiesta.
