![]() Hot Water: You want to do everything in your power to serve this as hot as possible. piece of ginger (chopped) to simmer in a pan for 5 minutes, before straining the solids out. For my honey ginger syrup, I bring 2 cups honey, 1 cup water and about a 4-to-6-oz. You don’t need to add ginger, but I find it adds a delightful spice. Honey/Ginger: Honey is a great way to add body to this drink. That is good but can be a little dull unless you pick a whiskey of some serious character (like a smoky scotch), so making it a hot whiskey sour with some lemon juice adds some much-welcome tension and complexity. Actually, the original Toddy didn’t have lemon juice at all and was essentially just a Hot Old Fashioned: whiskey, sugar and hot water. One of the Hot Toddy’s main dangers is being too thin and a single malt scotch or pot-still Irish whiskey helps offset that. It’s pot-stilled, which means it’s fuller and richer. If I could choose any brand, it would be Redbreast 12-year Irish whiskey. As does Japanese whisky, if you’re made of money. Whiskey: I personally prefer Scotch or Irish whiskey here, but American whiskey works as well. And, almost as a bonus (a fact that is often omitted in write-ups of the Hot Toddy): when properly prepared, it’s absolutely delicious. It is uniquely suited for a conversation with a friend or neighbor on a front porch and in any case can feel like precious comfort, when you prefer your comfort both liquid and silent. ![]() ![]() Mostly, though, it is deployed when blankets and coats just don’t quite do it, the cocktail like an internal medicine, to be taken as needed when the chill reaches your bones. A Hot Toddy is like whiskey chicken soup, the perfect drink to displace any physical or emotional chill. Many others call it the perfect nightcap: Mark Twain, according to David Wondrich’s Imbibe, took one for years before bedtime, calling it “the only soporific worth considering.” ![]() There are hundreds of recipe sites, for instance, that make the somewhat amusing (and not yet formally disproven) claim that Hot Toddy’s are healthy and can help cure a cold. This is especially true and especially wide-ranging, of the Hot Toddy, a drink that is recommended almost exclusively for its palliative effects. As anyone with young kids can tell you, alcohol can be inherently medicinal. ![]()
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