smuggler's coffee

The name for this double-rum coffee honors those responsible for giving coffee to the world, such as the Dutch traders who first smuggled a coffee plant into Europe in the mid-16th century. Later, French Captain Gabriel De Clieu, would be the first to successfully transport a coffee plant seedling across the Atlantic and into Martinique in 1723, an endeavor that launched 18 million coffee trees and an entire industry in a span of just 50 years.

½ cup strong, hot coffee
2 teaspoons sugar
1 ounce gold rum
1 ounce dark rum
1 stick whole cinnamon sticks
1 strip of orange zest

Stir the coffee and sugar together in a tempered glass until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add both rums; stir again. Add the cinnamon stick and the strip of orange zest. Garnish with grated orange zest, whipped cream and grated Mexican chocolate, if desired.

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