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| Jill Robidoux from beantown [CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] |
This rather bizarre sounding item is actually a cocktail - something that may not have immediately sprung to mind when you heard of it. It's not the band either (because there is a band called Hot Buttered Rum).
As a type of cocktail, it probably bears more resemblance to drinks such as eggnog or a hot toddy than any of the more common cocktails. Indeed, it likely originated at around the same sort of time as the colonial American variants of those drinks.
It is made from rum, butter, hot water (or cider), a sweetener and spices, with cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg being the most common, and the finished drink served in a coffee cup. Many of the ingredients, and the similar drinks, are strongly associated with the holiday season, as is the drink itself. Even though January is a bit on the late side for Christmas. There is a variant of the drink that omits the spices, another that use vanilla ice cream instead of or as well as the butter and one that is thought to be healthier that uses coconut oil instead of butter.
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