Hey does anybody have a good recipe for a good old fashioned Hot Toddy? My grandmother gave one to my Dad once when he was sick at her house. Worked like a charm. With all this sickness going around I was wondering if anybody had had a similar experience? Hoot? Let me know so that I can be prepared? Love you Lots, Susan and Emily

-- susan n' emily (animalcrackers55@hotmail.com), February 21, 2001

Answers

Put a good teaspoon of honey in a mug. Add 1 ounce of Bacardi Amber Rum, a dash of ceyene pepper and then fill the cup with boiling water. It works wonders

-- Tim Jaeger (tjkayaker@cyplace.net), February 22, 2001.

One good teaspoon of honey and one good shot of whiskey or brandy in a cup fill with boiling water and squeeze fresh lemon in it. Voila

-- Doreen (animalwaitress@excite.com), February 22, 2001.

2 tbl lemon juice, 1 tbl honey, pinch of minced onion, pinch of garlic. Mix with 1/4 cup water and bring to boil. Pour into mug, add 1 oz whiskey or brandy. Drink and crawl under the covers and stay there.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), February 22, 2001.

I use honey and apricot brandy and lemon juice with a dash or two of ground ginger, then the boiling water, uummm!

-- Cynthia Speer (farmsteader@gvtel.com), February 23, 2001.

Here's two -- the second is my favorite --

1 -- 2 tsp honey, 1 shot rum (any kind), 1/8 cup lemon juice -- fill with hot tea. Drink as hot as you can.

2 -- mince about 1/2 inch of fresh ginger and place in a large mug. cover with boiling water. Let steep about 3 minutes. Add 1 shot vodka and a goodly amount of honey (sweet to taste -- some like it REALLY sweet -- some not so much). Continually stir as you drink to keep the ginger moving around and the stuff in the cup from settling to the bottom. Vodka floats, apparently, because if you forget to stir you get one heck of a mouthful of the stuff all at once!

-- Tracy (trimmer@westzone.com), February 26, 2001.

I make a half cup of orange spice tea (I use "Constant Comment") and fill the rest of the cup with Spiced Rum (Captain Morgan's). The spice tea has ginger in it and probably the rum does too. Works great. I was sick with bronchitis one year and had a cup before bed - slept the best I've slept in years and was fine the next morning! I don't drink alcohol at all but sometimes its useful!

-- Susan Hutchinson (shutch@midmaine.com), February 27, 2001.