National Hot Buttered Rum Day! Five Food Finds about Hot Buttered Rum: • Hot Buttered Rum is a mixed drink containing rum, butter, hot cider, sugar, & spice (usually cinnamon). • Its considered one of the oldest mixed drinks in American History. • Mention of this drink date as far back as the 1600s. • A notable variation is the so-called Jay’s Famous Hot Buttered Rum, in which the hot drink is creamed together with vanilla ice cream and chilled into a paste. • After molasses began being imported to Colonial America from Jamaica, and distilleries opened in New England in the 1650s, colonists began adding distilled rum to hot beverages such as toddies and nogs.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:27:23 +0000
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