Brightest Young Things

It's about to warm up again DC (hooray! no more cracked skin and ugly winter clothing! no more ugly pants! NO MORE PANTS!) but we ain't there yet. Hot cocktails are still appropriate for those evenings where you want to sit in front of a fire, get sort of tipsy, and forget your troubles. Extra emphasis on forgetting troubles. And maybe names. And especially pants.

Sweet and Hot

• 2 oz milk
• 3/4 oz cream
• 3/4 oz kahlua
• 1 1/2 oz dark rum
• lemon peel
• clove

Heat in a heat resistant glass, add lemon peel and clove.

Take away the milk and cream and this would be quite good. With the cream and milk however it tastes like a milkshake that's been left to stew on the stove with stomach acid on the finish. I'm sticking with the Hot Toddy for now.