Hot Gin Toddy

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Hebridean Baker: Recipes and Wee Stories from the Scottish Islands

By Coinneach MacLeod

Published 2021

  • About

This restorative drink will ward away a cold or fever, but remember prevention is better than cure!

Ingredients

  • 300 ml water
  • 1 ginger teabag
  • 2 cinnamon sticks

Method

Into a saucepan pour your water, a ginger teabag, the cinnamon sticks, cardamom pods and cloves. Simmer. After 5 minutes stir in the honey and lemon juice and leave on the heat for another 5 minutes.

Remove from the heat and add the gin.

Pour into a large mug each and sit together by the fire.