Flaming Rum Monkey
a recipe
by Mary Maxwell
by Pat Murphy
Mary Maxwell, a pseudonym under which I sometimes write, is also a character in the novel that I'm currently writing. Mary Maxwell's favorite drink is the flaming rum monkey, a drink that didn't exist until fellow SF writer Ellen Klages and I invented it.
Here's the recipe. Put a teaspoon of brown sugar and a sprinkling of cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, and a teaspoon of coconut syrup (the kind used in pina coladas) in a warm mug. Put in a little boiling water--just enough to dissolve the sugar and let it steep for a minute. Add two ounces of dark Jamaican rum and one ounce of dark creme de cacao. Fill the mug with boiling water and stir.
Put a pinch of brown sugar in a big spoon. Fill the spoon with 151 rum. Hold the spoon over the mug filled with hot water to warm the rum in the spoon.
Now you're ready for the flames. Light the rum in the spoon. Tip the spoon into the mug. The mixture in the mug will burn with a lovely blue flame.
Blow out the flames and try a sip of your Rum Monkey. Hot, sweet, and touched with coconut--I think it tastes a bit like an alcoholic Mounds bar.
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Update: Sunday October 07 2007
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