Hot Toddy

Name: Hot Toddy
Yield: Serves 1
Ingredients: ½ cinnamon stick; 1–2 cloves; slice of lemon and juice of ½ lemon; 25 ml/1 fl oz whisky; 1 teaspoon clear, mild honey

Preparation info

Serves
1

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

About

This was my mother’s sworn recipe to battle every sort of cold and bug. She still swears by it. As children, we made do without the whisky. But it’s too good for illness alone, and is the perfect thing to warm up dreary winter’s eves.

Ingredients

1 teaspoon clear, mild honey
25 ml/1 fl oz whisky

Winter
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Drinks

Method

Mix the honey and whisky in a mug or heatproof glass. Add the cloves, cinnamon and lemon juice, then top up with just-off-the-boil water and stir. Add a slice of lemon and sip as soon as it doesn’t burn your lips.