{"id":15938,"date":"2012-10-05T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=15938"},"modified":"2012-10-04T17:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T21:26:42","slug":"hot-buttered-bourbon-and-cider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2012\/10\/hot-buttered-bourbon-and-cider\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Buttered Bourbon and Cider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/buttered_bourbon_cider.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15939\" title=\"Buttered Bourbon and Cider\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/buttered_bourbon_cider-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/buttered_bourbon_cider-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/buttered_bourbon_cider.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> The weather is starting to get chilly and the leaves are falling. It&#8217;s apple season and you all know <a title=\"OHC Kitchen Staple: Cider\" href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/11\/ohc-kitchen-staple-cider\/\" target=\"_blank\">how much I love cider!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to come up with a drink that would be warm, spicy, and have a little kick to it with some bourbon.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are hot toddys and hot buttered rum drinks, so making something along those lines with bourbon seemed reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>We had some lovely Kentucky small batch bourbon gifted to us by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakefoodfree.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lori<\/a> (foodie friends rock!) so I busted that out for this warm drink.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Andrea&#8217;s Hot Buttered Bourbon and Cider<\/strong><br \/>\n4C Cider<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 tsp Cinnamon or 2 Cinnamon Sticks<\/p>\n<p>1\/2tsp Ground Ginger or 1\/2 inch of Fresh Ginger<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 tsp Ground Clove or 5 Whole Cloves<\/p>\n<p>2tsp Vanilla Extract or 1 Vanilla Bean split<\/p>\n<p>4oz of Bourbon split into 2 oz portions<\/p>\n<p>2 TBSP Butter split into 1 TBSP portions<\/p>\n<p>In a medium sized sauce pan add the cider, spices, and vanilla. \u00a0Stir and bring up to a gentle simmer. \u00a0Simmer for about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In two mugs, put 2 oz of bourbon in each mug and 1 TBSP of butter.<\/p>\n<p>Remove the cider from the heat and if you used whole spices be sure to remove or strain those out first before serving.<\/p>\n<p>Fill each mug with 10 oz of cider mixture, pour right on top of the bourbon and butter. \u00a0Gently stir just to mix in the bourbon.<\/p>\n<p>Serve warm and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Serves two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott and I loved this drink! \u00a0So much that I immediately made another batch that night so we could have another mug of it. \u00a0I highly recommend making extra because you&#8217;re definitely going to go back for seconds.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re having a party, this recipe can be easily adjusted to accomodate more people. \u00a0You&#8217;ll just need more cider and to increase the spices a bit. \u00a0Each mug still gets 2 oz of bourbon and a TBSP of butter.<\/p>\n<p>Though if you ask me, I would go ahead and up the butter amount to 1.5 TBSP. \u00a0You won&#8217;t be sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh and local cider is best if you can find it. \u00a0If you&#8217;re in Fort Collins, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elafamilyfarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ela Family Farms<\/a> has great cider that you can get at the <a href=\"http:\/\/larimercountyfarmersmarket.colostate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">market on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather is starting to get chilly and the leaves are falling. It&#8217;s apple season and you all know how much I love cider! I wanted to come up with a drink that would be warm, spicy, and have a little kick to it with some bourbon. Of course there are hot toddys and hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37,75],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-494","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}