Don’t Operate!
After spending endless hours in the Life in the Short Lane test kitchen, I provide you with a recipe in follow-up to my last post. Consider it my special gift to you. Perhaps it will prove useful during the cold, flu and relatives-who-will-not-leave season:
Virtual Grandma’s Feel Better Now Hot Toddy
1 oz. brandy, whiskey or whatever the heck you’ve got in the house unless it’s something like strawberry mango rum. Now that I think about it, strawberry mango rum may be just the cure. Whiskey is considered the most “macho” choice which in my mind equates most “God awful.” I like the 
brandy.
1-2 Tbsp honey
1/4 lemon
1 cup hot water
1 tea bag
cloves or cinnamon stick, if desired
Preparation:
Coat the bottom of a mug or Irish coffee glass with honey. Add the liquor and the juice of the lemon quarter. In a separate mug, prepare hot tea with boiling water. Pour the steaming tea into honey coated mug and stir. Add a cinnamon stick or lemon slice embellished with cloves.
Warning: You may find yourself speaking a foreign language even if you don’t know one.
à votre santé!
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In a weakened state, I’m sure this would put me over the edge. Yes, I’m a light weight. Although, I might just have to try it. Maybe with Mr J’s vodka?
Love me some hot anything with alcohol
Great recipe. I will stash the ingredients in a corner of the fridge for those days ahead. Thanks.
This may not work with gin, which is all i have in the house. time to go shopping!
feel better soon!
That’s pretty close to what I remember Granny making. Oh, boy! Hope you are feeling much better.
Sounds amazing. For that alone, I will be following!
Holly @ 504 Main
I’m thinking I’ll try that tonight. Not that I have anyone in the house who won’t leave, except the kids. Who live here.
I think just smelling this would make me giggly and then socially inappropriate.
How are you? I miss you, even though I’m the one that’s been off gallivanting/working.
My husband needs this right now.
Yum, thanks!
I always wanted to speak a second language.
I am impressed with the lemon wheel dotted with cloves. I do declare, that be mighty fancy.
But I’m with Lilly. I’ll try it with vodka. Or tequila. Or maybe Praline Liqueur.
I am going to have to give this recipe a try. My mother used to drink it at the holidays when we were kids, she doesn’t anymore though. I wonder if she lost that taste for it or if she just doesn’t like it. I’m definitely going to try it.
OMG Whiskey is the Worst!! Yucky. But if it makes you feel better… it can’t be that bad.
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