Hot Rum And Cider Punch

• 2 pints apple cider
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 4 ounces lemon juice
• 1 quart gold Puerto Rican rum
• Lemon slices stuck with cloves

1. Heat the cider, stir in the syrup and sugar, then add the lemon juice and the rum.
2. Garnish with the lemon slices and place a cinnamon stick as a stirrer in each glass or mug.
3. These two recipes come from ''Rum Yesterday and Today,'' by Hugh Barty-King and Anton Massel.

apple cider, maple syrup, sugar, lemon juice, gold puerto, lemon slices stuck with cloves

Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1381 (may not work)