Loving the Whiskey a bit too much!

Ooh, I've had a hot buttered rum after a day of skiing, and it was just the ticket. But I ordered it at a bar, I haven't made one; I suppose I could look it up. I believe there was cinnamon in it.

Sago, I hope you are starting to feel better.

My Dad used to have a small tot of whiskey every night before bed He lived to 92 I can’t stand the taste of any spirits they all make me shudder
Now a baileys or ginger wine I could drink like orange juice

Please don’t use good malt in a toddy - it’s sacrilege.

Remember our old GP telling my DH that you couldn't cure a cold, but going to bed with a hot whisky in lemon and honey and a good woman would help.....

My favourite hot toddy is made with Jameson’s Irish whiskey. I make it by heating a mug of lemonade to piping hot temperature . Stick several cloves into a wedge of lemon and add to the hot lemonade together with a generous measure of whiskey.

If you don’t have lemonade then hot water and sugar to taste is fine.

Towards the end of drinking it I give the clove laden lemon wedge a squeeze with a spoon to release the remains of the lovely flavour. It’s very soothing for a sore throat 😋

Some good home cures here 😋

My DM preferred daily tipple was Brandy and ginger ale. We knew she was unwell when she no longer wanted the brandy! She died soon after aged 93.

BlueSapphire

Remember our old GP telling my DH that you couldn't cure a cold, but going to bed with a hot whisky in lemon and honey and a good woman would help.....

Or maybe even a scarlet woman? 🤣🤣🤣

DP is a firm believer in the hot toddy when he has a cold/ cough, he says it makes him stop coughing and get a good nights sleep.He puts a shot of any old whisky in a mug, adds some boiled hot water and a small teaspoon of honey.

paddyann54

My late dad used to make hot buttered rum ,I haven,t had it for half a century but I seem to remember it had a lot of brown sugar in it ..and it was great for colds.Dad loved a wee tot of rum after spending the war in the navy…or that was his excuse.
I make toddies with Irish whiskey honey lemon and diet lemonade ..cuts down on the sugar and still works

When I was around 10/12 years old we stayed with my grandparents for Christmas and I had a hacking cough especially at night. My grandad said “I’ll put a stop to that” and he put butter, sugar and I think it was Rum and probably some water (not sure) in a saucepan as I watched him. I drank it and for the first time in weeks I slept soundly with no cough. I have always remembered that but never had the same success with all the modern medicines I have had over the years.

Uisge beatha, water of life, whisky.
Mum gave me hot toddies as a child. Very soothing. Helped me to sleep during a heavy cold.

Greyduster

Please don’t use good malt in a toddy - it’s sacrilege.

But there's no other whisky or whiskey in our house!

Astitchintime

Greyduster

Please don’t use good malt in a toddy - it’s sacrilege.

But there's no other whisky or whiskey in our house!

And ours!

Nor in mine! DH always drank famous Grouse; hated the smoky island malts that I love. They’re a rare treat now, but my go to for a cold is sloe gin. Very good for colds.

This is a Speyburn 10 year old malt.

It’s OK as we could bathe in Whisky/Whiskey, nobody ever knows what to buy my husband so it’s always alcohol!

It was with mine. His favourite Christmas or birthday present from me was a bottle of Pussers or Woods Navy Rum, and mine from him a bottle of Oban. I didn’t like rum and he didn’t like malt so we were safe from each other!