
02/02/2025
🍹Stay warm with these cold weather cocktails to make on your next Vacation.
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HOT BUTTERED RUM: This classic recipe dates back to the 1600s and is reminiscent of warm boozy cookie dough. The spiced buttered sugar is winter: butter, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove.
Ingredients
1.5 oz. spiced rum
3.4 oz. hot water
Cinnamon stick, garnish
1 oz. spiced buttered sugar*
7 oz. butter
14 oz. demerara sugar
1 pinch nutmeg
1 pinch cinnamon
1 pinch clove
Instructions: Spiced Buttered Sugar: Heat a small skillet over medium low heat. Add the butter, stirring until it's melted. Add in the sugar, stirring until combined. Mix in the spices. Preheat a coffee mug with hot water. Discard hot water. Build all ingredients into mug. Stir with cinnamon stick to garnish and enjoy.
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Sage & Maple Toddy: Toddy's are the cozy sweater among cocktails best enjoyed after a day of skiing, snowshoeing or boarding; it's comforting and perfect for cold winter evenings. The perfect evening drink after the kids head off to bed.
Photo by: MICHAEL WOOLSEY
Ingredients
1.5 oz Bourbon
0.5 oz fresh lemon juice
0.5 oz maple syrup
4 oz sage leaf tea*
Instructions: Make Sage leaf tea: Bring 1 cup of water to a boil. Remove from heat and add 5 sage leaves. Cover and let steep for 5-10 minutes. Remove leaves. Preheat a coffee mug with hot water. Combine all ingredients in a glass. Garnish with a lemon wheel and a sage leaf. Serve hot.
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SPICED APPLE WARMER: The spiced apple warmer is always a fan favorite with the botanical mix of Gin nicely complementing the warming spices of cider, cinnamon, and ginger.” —Tim Cooper, favors Fords Gin
Ingredients (25 8-ounce servings)
26 oz Gin
169 oz cloudy apple juice or apple cider
6 limes Juiced
6 lemons Juices
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
marble-sized piece of fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated
Superfine sugar, to taste
Instructions: In large saucepan, bring apple, lime, and lemon juices to simmer, without boiling, over medium heat. Add cinnamon and ginger. Stir continuously and add sugar to taste. Add gin when well mixed and hot. Fill a pitcher, and preheat a coffee mug with hot water. Garnish individual mugs or cups with cinnamon stick and star anise.
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