In a small bowl, stir together the brown sugar, butter, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Distribute evenly among 4 warmed mugs. Add 3 Tbs. rum to each mug, then fill with the boiling water, stirring well. Garnish with cinnamon sticks.
Serves 4.
Adapted from
Williams-Sonoma Outdoors Series,
Snow Country Cooking,
by Diane Rossen Worthington
(Time-Life Books, 1999).