Colonial Hot Buttered Rum

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 quarts hot water
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 6 whole cloves
• 2 cups rum
• 1 cup sweetened whipped cream
• Ground nutmeg to taste

Directions

Combine the brown sugar, butter, salt and hot water in 5 quart slow cooker. Add cinnamon sticks and cloves. Cover and cook on Low for 5 hours. Stir in rum.

Ladle from the slow cooker into mugs, and top with whipped cream and a dusting of nutmeg.