Hey guys and welcome to Drinks Tube my name is Rich and today i'm going to be making an
appley twist on an all time classic rum drink.
The Hot Buttered Rum.
This is my favourite winter drink of all time and today i'm going to be letting you in on
my secret recipe.
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So the ingredients you are going to need for this are.
Aged rum, apricot brandy, some honey, today i'm using Acacia some cloudy apply juice,
fresh orange, some butter, some nutmeg and some cloves.
So first thing to do is to put the butter into the bottom of the pan to melt down.
It's about 10 grams worth of butter and this is gonna add a wonderful texture to the drink
its gonna bring all of those flavours to the front.
Hey guys you wanna come and have a look at this.
We're gonna melt this down a little bit like that.
And then on top of that we're gonna sweeten it with our honey.
Teaspoon of honey, there we go absolutely perfect.
So we've got liquid butter and honey in there.
We then pour in 100ml of fresh cloudy apple juice.
So we're just gonna let that heat up now and add our spices.
So you literally want about 3/4 cloves. 3 big cloves or 4 little cracked ones into the
bottom of that.
That's all you need that's it literally and a little bit of freshly grated nutmeg around
about a pinches worth so 3 or 4 big grates.
And then we're gonna do the same with some orange zest, fresh orange.
So around about a side is what you wanna be left with is something lite that.
Come have a look at this.
What we're gonna do we're gonna allow that to infuse for a short while like as if we
were making like a mulled wine and then as soon as it comes up to temperature so its
piping hot we're gonna start adding our alcohol.
Just as it starts to steam have a little taste.
Whoa that is absolutely delicious.
So we're gonna use apricot brandy this works beautifully in all sorts of hot drinks it's
kind of got that soft fruitiness a little bit of a stoney nature similar to cherries
works very very well with rum.
We're using 20ml of this and last but by no means least just before you're about to serve
it and not a moment before we pour in the aged rum.
40ml.
So that's all of our ingredients simple as that.
We make sure we don't let it boil but we still want to bring it up to temperature to make
it nice and warm for us to drink.
So that's all up to temperature now, its looking absolutely lovely, we're gonna bring it over
here to serve it and garnish it.
Now when you're using hot drinks, when you're making hot drinks always use a cup with a
handle sounds obvious but sometimes you forget.
Looking delightful.
Now we're gonna garnish this with a little zest of lemon so just use a wide peeler/ potato
peeler just to take the little lemon zest off the top of that.
Trim it down.
Make it look nice.
Its the fine details which count.
And then just literally bring it over the top of the drink and give it a gentle little
squeezing get those lemon peels over the top of the drink.
Its gonna add a contrast to that sort of rich sort of toffee apple flavour.
There you go that's it.
My Heavenly Hot Buttered Rum.
Oh that is absolutely amazing.
Whoa no matter how many times I drink that its just, it's a wonderful recipe.
Apricot brandy is totally there but sort of supported by the rum and then the butter gives
it a wonderful texture and a little bit of nutmeg and obviously that wonderful contrast
with the lemon just kind of adding a counterpart to the sort of toffee nature of the drink.
Its just heavenly.
You have got to make that at home.
And if you're interested in other hot drinks check out the Cuban Toffee Posset or if you
like the idea of this sort of rum and apple sort of vibe check out the Treacle over here.
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Nice one guys see you later cheers!