Name: Cold Comfort
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml White overproof rum; 22.5 ml Honey and water syrup; 22.5 ml Lime juice

Cold Comfort
Jump to

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	White overproof rum (unaged Jamaican/funky)
³⁄₄ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

Read about cocktail measures and measuring

How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge or slice wheel.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

More cocktails with similar strength and taste profile

Review:

Take at the first sign of a cold, and then retreat under your bed covers. Repeat dose regularly while symptoms persist. Warning - do not consume with other forms of medication.

View readers' comments

History:

Discovered in Jamaica in 2001.

Nutrition:

One serving of Cold Comfort contains 158 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
23.16% alc./vol. (23.16° proof)
20.8 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Join the discussion

Showing 3 comments for Cold Comfort.
See discussion in the Forum

Please log in to make a comment

John Hinojos

12th September 2022 at 04:30

This is wonderful. Having a large collection of rums, this is powerful and direct. You need quality ingredients as there are only a few. Made our honey syrup out of local honey, and used Wray and Nephew white overproof rum. While it is strong, it does drink easily. Great as an evening sipper/nightcap.

Stephen Lawrence

23rd March 2021 at 16:31

This seems a bizarre way of measuring to me. There's no such thing as 3/4 of part. The point of ratios is to make it whole numbers so it's 2 rum to 1 honey syrup to 1 lime juice. And no-one is measuring 22.5 mls, 50 mls rum to 25 mls honey syrup to 25 mls lime is the same drink and only 10 mls more so quite acceptable. Love the daily cocktail suggestions btw.

John Hinojos

2nd April 2022 at 00:44

I have bought the jiggers that Simon has created. It allows you to do all types of measurements. As I am in the US and had to paid international shipping, I ordered multiple and was glad I have more than one. They are our favourite jigger.