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Drink · 6 min · 1 mug

Hot buttered rum

Butter, sugar and spice whisked into hot rum. It sounds like too much until it is November and you are outside.

The sheet · 1 mug · 6 min

easy

Why tonight. Butter, sugar and spice whisked into hot rum. It sounds like too much until it is November and you are outside.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • rum
  • butter
  • sugar
  • cinnamon

Method

  1. Make the batter ahead: soft butter beaten with brown sugar, cinnamon and a pinch of salt. It keeps for weeks in the fridge.
  2. A heaped spoon of it in a warmed mug with 2 oz dark rum, topped with hot — not boiling — water.
  3. Stir until the butter has entirely gone. Undissolved butter floats as an oil slick and it is unpleasant.
  4. The salt in the batter is what stops it tasting like a dessert, and leaving it out is the usual mistake.

An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

rum
The widest spirit on the shelf.
butter
Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
sugar
Not just sweetness — it balances acid and bitterness, which is why a sour drink and a tomato sauce both want a little.
cinnamon
Warm and sweet-smelling without being sweet, which is why it works in a stew as readily as in a pastry.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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