Toddies are just the thing when you’re under the weather. So say I. This is such a flexible beverage, you can use brandy, whiskey, scotch, bourbon… (or, I mean, you can use anything you want), any kind of tea or just hot water, any herbs or spices you want to toss in…a hot liquored up infusion of any sort I would say falls under this toddy umbrella. Toddy is such a cute word.
While it is flexible, mine generally tend to be something like this:
1-1.5 oz bourbon (often like the slightly sweeter bourbon over whiskey for this application, here Buffalo Trace)
1/4 lemon, juice of
cloves, allspice berries, cinnamon stick
1 Tbs honey
tea (lemon, chamomile, or something fruity, or whatever, here I’ve used Teavana’s Youthberry, a sweet white tea)
Match Convivio mug, spoon, and Libeco Grainhall napkin on loan from Didriks.
Elaborate beverages cheer me up. Don’t they you? Get someone else to make one for you and it’s even better.
It just got distinctly colder here in Cambridge, so a toddy here and there is all the more welcome. They’re easy drinking, though, so they can sneak up on you…