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Ginger Beer and Dark Rum - Kate Weber Brown
Lame Tongue - Alice Gomez
Hot-Buttered Rum and Cold Remedies
Hot-Buttered Rum - Astrid Bear
Cold Remedy - Gary Brown
Hot-Buttered Rum and Winter Remedy - Charlie Ogden
An Alternative to Charlie's Recipe - Bob Jernigan
Fluffy Duck - Peter Mackay
Nelson's Blood and Song
Rum and Apple Cider
Dark Rum and Apple Cider - Charlie Ogden
Hot Apple Blast - MacKenna Charleson
Shrub
Rahzbry Shrub, eh what? - Elizabeth McCullough
Rum and Shrub Question - Gerard K.
Rum and Shrub Answer - Adam Quinan
Shrub...why the name one wonders? - Kyle Lerfald Asks and Edmund Burton Replies
Shrub and Sherbet - Alice Gomez
Secret American Halloween Recipe - Sarah Scott
Ginger Beer and Dark Rum - Kate Weber Brown
Ginger beer is another, sharper flavour. Vernor's tends to burn in the back of the throat, ginger beer in the nose.
Ginger beer is most useful when blended with dark rum and consumed in quantity.
Lame Tongue - Alice Gomez
3 ounces light rum
3 ounces dark rum
2 ounces white wine
1 ounce tonic water
1 ounce mineral water
2 ounces Curacao orange
3 ounces Anisette
4 anchovies
4 tablespoons powdered sugar
Eat the anchovies. Put everything else into a blender with ice. Drink. See if you can do it again.
Hot-Buttered Rum and Cold Remedies
Hot-Buttered Rum - Astrid Bear
I also enjoy hot buttered rum: boiling water, a modest pat of butter, rum, sugar, cinnamon, and a touch of nutmeg makes it.
Cold Remedy - Gary Brown
Mix 3 ounces of Jamaica rum with 1 oz of hot water, a knob of butter, a pinch of ground ginger and 2 aspirin.
Hot-Buttered Rum and Winter Remedy - Charlie Ogden
Boil water. While this is happening, add to a mug of your choosing 2 ounces. of dark rum. Any rum will do, but dark rum adds a little color. I generally use "Pusser's" when available. To the rum add one teaspoon of sugar, a pat of real butter and a cinnamon stick. Add the hot water and stir. To this mix add a cozy fire, a good friend, and the CD "Musical Evenings with the Captain". Presto, it is Spring before you know it!
An Alternative to Charlie's Recipe - Bob Jernigan
I use 1/4 lemon instead of the sugar. Including rind.
Fluffy Duck - Peter Mackay
1 part White rum
1 part Advocaat
Lemonade
Double Cream
Strawberry
Mix the rum and the advocaat in a hi-ball glass with crushed ice. Top with Lemonade. Float the cream on top. Slit the strawberry and place on the rim of the glass and serve.
Nelson's Blood and Song
The British naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson is famous for the line, 'England expects every man to do his duty'. Mortally wounded at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, a statue of him stands atop a column in the middle of Trafalgar Square in London to commemorate his greatest victory. Ships travelled slowly in the great days of sail; so legend has it that, after he died at sea, he had to be brought back to London in a barrel, his body preserved with Royal Navy Rum. Some say he was more likely preserved using Gin or Brandy, but that ruins the story. By the time the barrel reached London, the rum was gone. As he was transferred with all due ceremony from one ship to the next on his way back to land, the sailors all had to have a little bit of the rum... along with a little bit of Nelson's Blood. Since then, any rum or grog, and Pusser's rum in particular, have all been known as Nelson's Blood. However, there is a drink concoction served in the British Virgin Isles (and probably elsewhere) that has been given the name as well.
Nelson's Blood
One part Grapefruit Juice
One part Cranberry Juice
One part Pineapple Juice
One part Pusser's Rum
A Drop of Nelson's Blood (or Roll the Old Chariot Along)
Oh, a drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm;
(Repeat three times)
And we'll all hang on behind.
Chorus:
We'll roll the old chariot along,
An' we'll roll the old chariot along;
So we'll roll the old chariot along,
An' we'll all hang on behind!
Oh, a little mug o' beer wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Oh, a plate of Irish stew wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Oh, a little slug of gin wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Oh, a night upon the shore wouldn't do us any harm etc.
Oh, a little drop of wine wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Oh, a nice fat cook wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Oh, a long spell in gaol wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Oh, a nice watch below wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Oh, a night with the gals wouldn't do us any harm, etc...
Sandy Bottoms!
Rum and Apple Cider
Dark Rum and Apple Cider - Charlie Ogden
Dark rum mixes well with apple cider, as well. Heat the cider, add to the rum with a slice of orange and some cloves. Sprinkle a little powdered cinnamon on top. Don't forget the fire and the friend. For cat fanciers, ten pounds of purring fur asleep in your lap is good.
Hot Apple Blast - MacKenna Charleson
During the Hornblower series, every Sunday night I would have what Caribou Coffee calls a "Hot Apple Blast" ... though I added a touch of rum to it, making it at home.
Two cups hot apple cider
Caramel sauce
Whipped cream
Cinnamon stick
1 jigger rum
I simply heat the cider, drizzle in some caramel to taste, add rum and whipped cream at the top, drizzle more caramel, plunk in the cinnamon stick.
It sips like debauched apple pie.
Pusser's Painkiller
1 ounce cream of coconut
1 ounce orange juice
4 ounces pineapple juice
2 ounces Pusser's Rum
Blend shake or stir. Pour over ice, and grate fresh nutmeg on top.
Shrub
Rahzbry Shrub, eh what? - Elizabeth McCullough
There is, in the current issue of Better Homes and Gardens, a prize-winning recipe for Raspberry Shrub submitted by Hunter Mario, of Charlottesville, VA. Sounds like yummy stuff. The ingredients are red raspberries, honey, sugar, water, lemons, cinnamon, rosemary, cloves, rum, ice, and champagne. With one bottle of champagne stretched out over 16 servings (and not that much rum), it's not too likely to produce much of a buzz, I'm sorry to say. Basically, you cook the raspberries and other flavorings down into a syrup, then combine the syrup with the rum, champagne and ice to make a sparkling punch.
Raspberry Shrub Source: Better Homes and Gardens
Makes about 16 (about 4-ounce) servings
Ingredients
3 12-ounce packages frozen lightly sweetened red raspberries (about 9 cups)
1-1/2 cups honey
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup water
2 lemons
12 inches stick cinnamon, broken
2 tablespoons snipped fresh rosemary or 2 to 3 teaspoons dried rosemary, crushed
9 or 10 whole cloves (1/2 teaspoon)
1/3 to 1/2 cup light rum or 1/2 cup water
2 to 3 cups ice cubes
1 750 ml bottle champagne or sparkling grape juice, chilled
Fresh rosemary sprigs (optional)
Directions
1. In a 4-quart Dutch oven combine raspberries, honey, sugar, and water. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
2. Using a vegetable peeler, remove strips of peel from lemons; juice the lemons (should have 1/2 cup). Add strips of lemon peel, lemon juice, cinnamon, rosemary, and cloves to Dutch oven. Bring mixture just to boiling; stir occasionally. Remove from heat. Cover; cool to room temperature.
3. Press mixture through a sieve; discard solids (you should have about 4 cups syrup). Syrup may be covered and refrigerated up to 3 days.To serve, in a punch bowl combine syrup, rum, and ice cubes. Slowly add champagne or sparkling juice. Stir gently. Serve over ice in small glasses or punch cups. Garnish with fresh rosemary sprigs, if desired. Makes about 16 (4-ounce) servings.
Rum and Shrub Question - Gerard K.
Just bought a bottle of 'Shrub' from my local wine merchant. In the canon Jack takes this with rum,does anyone know if the drinks are mixed and if so, in what proportion?
Rum and Shrub Answer - Adam Quinan
Check the ingredients, it may already contain rum or some other spirituous beverage. Shrub is basically a mixture of fruit juices and a liquor a sort of fruit juice and alcohol cocktail. I don't know whether the bottle you have is ready mixed (like a pre-mixed cocktail in a bottle) or is the basic shrub mixture of ingredients requiring rum to be added to make it just right.
Shrub...why the name one wonders? - Kyle Lerfald Asks and Edmund Burton Replies
Like so many good things, from our friends the Arabs:
Main Entry: shrub
Function: noun
Etymology: Arabic sharbah beverage
Date: circa 1706
1 : an aged blend of fruit juice, sugar, and spirits served chilled and
diluted with water
2 : a beverage made by adding acidulated fruit juice to iced water
from Merriam-Webster Online
Shrub and Sherbet - Alice Gomez
Indeed, and both sherbet and shrub may come from the same root. I have just finished Ionian Mission and Treason's Harbour, and wondered about the "sherbet" that was served. Now, when *I* think of sherbet, it's either orange or green and is in a box in the freezer, but I doubt either was available then, so what exactly was this sherbet?
Etymology: Turk and Persian; Turkish serbet, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic sharbah drink
Date: 1603
1 : a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice
2 : an ice with milk, egg white, or gelatin added
Wikipedia: Sherbet
Secret American Halloween Recipe - Sarah Scott
Halloween in Croatia. They loved our carved jackolanterns. The punch was phenomenal-- as a gypsy princess told me over the punch bowl-- "this is very good-- it never tastes the same when I come back!" "Secret American Halloween Recipe," I told her.
Actually we bought gallons and gallons of peach juice (which is what was common in the stores) and asked everybody to bring a bottle. Mostly I think it was peach juice, apple juice, eastern Jugoslavian Gin (which tastes exactly like Jugoslavian vodka!), rum and Proshek (which turns out to be like port).
It was wonderful.