Feel Better Now Hot Toddy Recipe

by Margo on December 6, 2009

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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{ 14 comments }

1 Lily December 8, 2009 at 10:13 am: 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?
2 Lee the Hot Flash Queen December 8, 2009 at 10:25 am: Love me some hot anything with alcohol
3 rosaria December 8, 2009 at 11:20 am: Great recipe. I will stash the ingredients in a corner of the fridge for those days ahead. Thanks.
4 Viridian December 8, 2009 at 2:52 pm: This may not work with gin, which is all i have in the house. time to go shopping!
feel better soon!
5 Snap December 8, 2009 at 4:13 pm: That’s pretty close to what I remember Granny making. Oh, boy! Hope you are feeling much better.
6 Holly L December 8, 2009 at 5:23 pm: Sounds amazing. For that alone, I will be following!

Holly @ 504 Main
7 The Mother December 8, 2009 at 5:38 pm: 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.
8 Vic December 8, 2009 at 8:41 pm: 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.
9 Unknown Mami December 9, 2009 at 1:19 am: My husband needs this right now.
10 Jen December 9, 2009 at 8:55 am: Yum, thanks!
11 Jane Gaston December 9, 2009 at 9:15 am: I always wanted to speak a second language.
12 phd in yogurtry December 10, 2009 at 12:26 pm: 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.
13 Ms. Freeman December 10, 2009 at 5:48 pm: 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.
14 Aunt Jackie December 11, 2009 at 5:25 pm: OMG Whiskey is the Worst!! Yucky. But if it makes you feel better… it can’t be that bad.

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