Hot toddy?

[sgluckadoo]

What exactly is a hot toddy? I was thinking some sort of cider and alcohol drink but I may be waaay off! Any recipes?

[lvstephanie]

A Hot Toddy was originally a hot tea with added alcohol (usually whiskey, bourbon, or scotch). The name comes from a toddy (or palm toddy) that is an alcoholic drink made from fermented sap from palm trees. The name was brought over to Europe (mostly Britian) through the East India Trading Company, and because of this company's close ties with the tea trade, the British thought that the "toddy" being brought over was just an alcoholic version of tea. Today many Hot Toddy recipes don't include the tea at all, and are more just a combination of lemon, spices (usually cinnamon, brown sugar, nutmeg, etc.), alcohol (again usually from the whiskey family), and hot water. It is actually very similar to grog where grog tends to have the same ingredients except that it uses rum instead of whiskey as its alcoholic base.

[reiddb]

I vaguely remember hearing that term....I think you're right about the drink part.

[dodgers16]

 I also always wondered and was not sure what exactly a Hot Toddy was, so thanks for the info

[patycake56]

My dad truly believed in a hot toddy when you were sick he always used liquor honey and a stick of peppermint warm it up drink it down get into bed and get under the covers

[PGS28]

It's Dr. Tischner anticeptic, a swig of alcohol (optional), lemon, peppermint, honey, and hot water. It's used to sweat out colds.