Hot Buttered Rum

• for the drink
• 1 ounce Dark Rum (preferably a small batch Caribbean)
• 3 Whole Cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon Raw Sugar
• 1 Cinnamon Stick
• 3/4 Pad of Salted Butter
• 1 Lemon Zest (inch long, 1/4 inch wide, no pith)
• 1 1/2 ounces Boiled Water (prefer spring, high alkaline variety)
• for the drink

1. Boil water on the stove
2. Place the cloves, rum, and sugar in cup and gently mix; after mixing place cinnamon stick in concoction. (If possible, prepare an hour or so ahead of boiling time; but not absolutely necessary).
3. Smear butter inside the cup, just above the rum.
4. Pour the boiled water slowly over the butter and allow it to melt. A 'slick' should form at the top of the cup. Cinnamon stick stays in the cup at all times.
5. Rim the cup with the lemon zest, then drop in the drink.

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/8411-hot-buttered-rum (may not work)