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Article: Hot buttered rum.(DRINKING)(Brief article)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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FEBRUARY. During its dark, cold days our faith in modern medicine is annually tested. Not only has the scientific method produced nothing to cure the common cold (February's state bird, as it were), it can't even really make us feel better. For that, we fall back on Hot Buttered Rum: 150 years old, jam-packed with fat, sugar, and alcohol, and still the only thing that'll beat February.
You'll need a good stout mug, a bottle of dark rum (Lemon Hart, Coruba, Myers's, like that), a clean fireplace poker, a fireplace, and--you see where this is going--a nice, hot ...