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Hot Toddy

Honey dissolved in hot water with a squeeze of lemon: a whisky to sip slowly on a winter night.

Classic collection version

For one serving

Ingredients

  • Honey
    2 tsp
  • Whiskey
    45 ml / 1.52 US fl oz
  • Lemon Juice
    10 ml / 0.34 US fl oz
  • Water

    Hot water

    90 ml / 3.04 US fl ozto top up
  • Cloveoptional
    3 pieces

US fl oz amounts are rounded; use ml for exact measures.

To garnishLemon wheel, Cinnamon stick

Make it

  1. Warm the glass with hot water, then pour it out.
  2. Add honey and a little hot water, then stir until dissolved.
  3. Add whisky and lemon juice, then pour in about 90 ml of hot water.
  4. Add a lemon slice and cinnamon stick; you can press the cloves into the lemon slice.

Behind the drink

Since the 18th century, toddy in English has referred to spirits mixed with hot water, sugar and spices. Dickens also mentions whisky toddy in The Pickwick Papers.