No murder instructions, but a recipe: Dead Aunt is a popular hot drink, especially at Christmas time
Created: 12/16/2022, 6:30 p.m
By: Janine Napirca
Dead aunt sounds bloodier than the hot Christmas drink made of cocoa, milk, rum and whipped cream actually is.
The preparation is very easy and quick.
Especially in the cold season, it's nice to warm up from the inside with delicious hot drinks such as three-ingredient sea buckthorn grog, mulled gin or gin-cider punch.
Add to that a delicious quark stollen without raisins and you can relax and watch the snow drift outside the window from inside.
Sweet, hot and iconic - but not bloody - is also a hot drink whose name sounds very macabre at first glance.
The best way to enjoy the Hot Drink Tote Tante during the Advent season is with homemade Christmas cookies.
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Have you ever drunk a dead aunt without knowing it?
The hot drink is also called Lumumba - after the first Prime Minister of the Congo, which was independent of Belgium, Patrice Lumumba.
According to legend, the term Tote Tante goes back to a resident of the island of Föhr.
She is said to have died in America and her ashes brought back to the island in an urn inside a cocoa crate.
The hot drink also attracts attention in literature: Krischan Koch dedicated himself to the cocoa-rum drink in his detective novel Dreimal Tote Tante.
Below is the recipe.
For two cups of Dead Tante you need the following ingredients
2 tsp cocoa
2 tsp sugar
250 ml milk (alternatively you can also use oat or soy drink)
8 ml rum
whipped cream for sprinkling
To decorate the Tote Tante hot drink, you also need chocolate shavings or chocolate powder.
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It's that easy and quick to prepare the chocolate temptation Dead Tante
Mix the cocoa and sugar into a powder mixture.
Heat the milk in a saucepan on the stove and pour in the cocoa-sugar mixture, stirring constantly.
Now you should also warm up the rum a little (but not hot) and pour it into a cup.
Then pour the cocoa-sugar-milk over it.
Cover the dead aunt with whipped cream and decorate with chocolate shavings or chocolate powder.
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The dead aunt tastes best when you enjoy it hot and snack on delicious Christmas cookies, such as 10-minute Bethmännchen, grandma's rascals or the classic cinnamon stars.