hot toddy
{{short description|Hot alcoholic drink with whiskey}}
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A hot toddy, also known as hot whiskey in Ireland,{{cite book|first1=Diarmaid Ó|last1=Muirithe|title=Words We Use: The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st34AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT82|publisher=Gill & Macmillan Ltd|date=31 October 2006|isbn=9780717151844|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|first1=David|last1=Wondrich|access-date=2019-02-16|title=Wondrich: The Essential Winter Cocktail|url=https://www.esquire.com/winter-drink-recipes-0111|date=17 December 2010|website=Esquire}} and occasionally called southern cough syrup{{Cite web |last=Cosgrove |first=Jaclyn |title=Flu myths: The flu shot won't make you sick, and whiskey won't cure you |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2013/01/07/flu-myths-the-flu-shot-wont-make-you-sick-and-whiskey-wont-cure-you/61016215007/ |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}} within the Southern United States, is typically a mixed drink made of liquor and water with honey (or in some recipes, sugar), lemon, and spices, and served hot.{{cite web|title=Definition of Hot Toddy|url=http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hot%20toddy|work=Princeton WordNet|access-date=12 February 2012}} Recipes vary, and hot toddy is traditionally drunk as a nightcap before retiring for the night, in wet or cold weather, or to relieve the symptoms of the cold and flu. In How to Drink, Victoria Moore describes the drink as "the vitamin C for health, the honey to soothe, the alcohol to numb."{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Victoria|date=18 November 2009|title=How to Drink|url=https://www.howtodrink.co.uk/new-page-1|location=Kansas City|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC|page=236|isbn=978-0740785740}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/13/nigel-slater-classic-hot-toddy-recipe|title=Nigel Slater's classic hot toddy recipe|last=Slater|first=Nigel|author-link=Nigel Slater|work=The Guardian|date=12 March 2011|access-date=16 December 2012}}
Preparation
A hot toddy is a mixture of a spirit (usually whisky), hot water, and honey (or, in some recipes, sugar). In Canada, maple syrup may be used. Additional ingredients such as cloves, a lemon slice or cinnamon (in stick or ground form) are often also added.{{cite book|last=Poister|first=John H.|title=The New American Bartenders Guide|date=1999|publisher=Signet Reference|isbn=0-451-19782-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newamericanbarte00pois/page/612 612]|edition=2nd|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/newamericanbarte00pois/page/612}}{{cite web|title=Wisconsin Winter Toddy|url=http://misanthropology101.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/manly-wisconsin-winter-toddy/|work=Princeton WordNet|access-date=12 February 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123033435/http://misanthropology101.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/manly-wisconsin-winter-toddy/|archive-date=23 November 2013}}
Etymology
The word toddy comes from the toddy drink in India, produced by fermenting the sap of palm trees. Its earliest known use to mean "a beverage made of alcoholic liquor with hot water, sugar, and spices" is from 1786. It is often referred to as a 'Hot Toady'.{{cite web|url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/toddy|title=toddy|work= Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper|access-date=21 September 2016}} However, a few other sources credit Robert Bentley Todd for his prescription of a hot drink of brandy, canella (white cinnamon), sugar syrup, and water.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91wxBwAAQBAJ|title=Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|last=Lyons|first=Paddy|year=2013|location=Cambridge|pages=150|isbn=9781443853583}}
Variations
A cold toddy is made with rye whiskey, oranges, lemons, cinnamon sticks, ginger, Earl Grey tea, cloves, honey, and orange or regular bitters. It is served with ice and stirred until it is very cold.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cold-toddy|title=Cold Toddy|first=Andy|last=Baraghani|author-link=Andy Baraghani|website=Bon Appétit|date=20 November 2018}}
See also
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- Mahogany (drink)
- Grog is the name of a similar drink based on rum in several cultures.
- Posset
- Absinthe
- List of hot drinks
- Tamagozake, the traditional Japanese cold cure, uses heated sake mixed with raw egg.
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