Recipe: Make your own spiced rum - Tiki Drinks and Food

TG The Gnomon Member MD-DC-VA Joined: May 01, 2007 Posts: 1293	TG The Gnomon Posted posted on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 8:00 AM Well, the favorite drink among the pirates of the Carribbean was bumbo, which was/is spiced rum. The main spice was nutmeg, but there were lots of other things in it. The Carribbean was a sugar, herb and spice candy store, as everything grew very well there and in great abundance. The recipes you find today for "the best" spiced rum are just more palatable versions of bumbo. Here's a Captian Morgan-bashing post with bumbo references. Here is a bumbo recipe from Cap'n Dildarian Pumpernickel posted on Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day in 2007. Warning: this one is heavy on the nutmeg, as you might hope to find on the Spanish Main but a bit overwhelming, perhaps, by today's standards. Any batch can be favorably adjusted by adding more sugar and spices for the flavor and sweetness, and more rum if the additives are overwhelming.

Well, the favorite drink among the pirates of the Carribbean was bumbo, which was/is spiced rum. The main spice was nutmeg, but there were lots of other things in it. The Carribbean was a sugar, herb and spice candy store, as everything grew very well there and in great abundance. The recipes you find today for "the best" spiced rum are just more palatable versions of bumbo.

Here's a Captian Morgan-bashing post with bumbo references.

Here is a bumbo recipe from Cap'n Dildarian Pumpernickel posted on Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day in 2007. Warning: this one is heavy on the nutmeg, as you might hope to find on the Spanish Main but a bit overwhelming, perhaps, by today's standards. Any batch can be favorably adjusted by adding more sugar and spices for the flavor and sweetness, and more rum if the additives are overwhelming.

Post #436319 by The Gnomon on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 8:00 AM