Fragrant toddy. A fragrant and warming drink - British Toddy

Many alcoholic beverages are known to be drunk hot. Mulled wine, grog, punch - they are served during the cold season to enjoy the original taste and keep warm. One of the brightest representatives of such alcohol is Toddy.

This is a traditional British aromatic drink based on spirits and spices. He gained his popularity many years ago. In winter, such a cocktail gives a feeling of warmth and peace, and, according to some connoisseurs of alcohol, even improves health.

Origin of the drink

It is believed that the hot brandy and spice cocktail first appeared in the 19th century in East India. English sailors on long voyages experimented with alcohol, adding various herbs to it, as a result of which the toddy appeared.

There is another version of the origin: according to some reports, this drink was created for women, because the soft spicy cocktail tastes good and is easy to drink.

Cooking methods

The recipe for the Hot Toddy drink has acquired various variations over the years, but the classic method remains unchanged. The alcohol base can be chosen according to the taste of the cook - brandy or rum. In addition, you need one glass of strong black tea, cinnamon, cloves, honey and mint.

The classic recipe. Add a couple of carnation flowers, a cinnamon stick and honey to a cup of hot tea. Pour in strong alcohol - 50-60 ml. Optionally, you can use lemon - add a couple of drops of juice to tea, and decorate the glass with slices. Attach two mint leaves on top. The drink is ready.

Irish Toddy - a hot cocktail prepared according to a similar recipe. But it is based exclusively on whiskey.

Apple Toddy is a French interpretation of a famous recipe. Calvados is used as an alcoholic base for such a drink. The cooking process is similar to the classic one, but has a number of differences. Apple syrup is mixed in a glass with Calvados in the same amount - 50 ml each. Then boiling water is added to the mixture. You need to decorate the cocktail with thin apple slices and nutmeg.

Ginger toddy is a great way to keep warm and boost your immune system. To prepare this alcoholic beverage, grind the ginger root into thin slices. Use any convenient means at hand for this. Stir the chopped ginger with two tablespoons of honey, add a slice of lemon and pour boiling water over. The resulting mixture must be infused for about half an hour. Then remove the lemon, strain and add alcohol - brandy or whiskey. Garnish with mint and drink on cold winter evenings. Lemon, ginger and honey are the best defenders of the body during colds.

A few more original variations of the drink are tangerine or orange toddy. This cocktail is prepared according to the classic recipe, but instead of black tea, tangerine or orange juice with hot water in a 1: 1 ratio is used.

How to drink correctly

Toddy is rarely drunk chilled. It is much more popular as a hot drink. In cold weather, the cocktail will warm up during a long walk if you take it with you.

At home, Toddies are served hot in teacups. For a large company, a cocktail is prepared in a deep bowl, and then poured into glasses, like a punch or grog. Fresh pastries and light desserts will serve as an addition to it.

Invigorating, warming, spicy toddy is what you need in the frosty season.

Hot Toddy cocktail is a tea-based hot drink with whiskey, lemon juice and honey, similar to grog, but much easier to prepare. They invented "strong tea" in Ireland long ago, already in the 17th century, and a couple of decades later the Scots became addicted to it. The climate of both countries is cold and damp, so the low-alcohol cocktail quickly fell in love with the locals for its warming effect, pleasant taste and low degree.

Toddy's classic recipe is simple and takes only 5 minutes to cook. Basically, you brew tea with the addition of spices, sugar (or honey) and strong alcohol - most often whiskey. If desired, you can use another "healing" alcoholic beverage, such as brandy or scotch. Experiments are also allowed with varieties of your favorite tea: black, green or herbal, with the addition of chamomile, currant leaves, mint or rose hips. But lemon juice and honey should remain on the ingredient list. Cinnamon, cloves and ginger are sometimes added to enhance the aroma and warming effect of the cocktail. Hot toddy turns out to be sweet, thick and warm, and most importantly, very tasty.

Total cooking time: 8 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Yield: 1 portion

Ingredients

• black leaf tea - 1 tsp.
• honey - 2 tsp
• boiling water - 200 ml
• lemon - 1/4 pc.
• whiskey, scotch or brandy - 30-50 ml
• cinnamon - 1 stick optional
• cloves and lemon wedges - for decoration

Preparation

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It is best to drink Hot Toddy hot or warm, slowly in order to feel its warming effect. Of course, this drink is intended only for adults, it is better for children to give tea with raspberry jam. It would be appropriate to serve whiskey, diluted with hot tea, in a pleasant friendly company to warm up from the cold, you can also pour it into a thermos and take it with you on a hike. Be healthy!

On a note

If you use Calvados instead of whiskey, and replace lemon with apple juice, you get the Apple Toddy cocktail.

Cocktails It is better to use an old root for preparing a drink, it is larger in size and has a rich smell and taste. Thanks to this simple recipe, you can make a delicious, and most importantly, healthy tea that will help in the early stages of a cold. For flavor, you can add almonds, lemon, honey and various berries. I suggest you make your own drink. The tea turns out to be spicy and cloying. If you need to soften the drink, you can add honey to the finished tea.
Ginger 1 pc. Water 600 ml. Honey 1 g. Take the old ginger root and peel it. This is not easy to do, so be patient. We rub the peeled root on the finest grater, we need its juice. We transfer the resulting mass to a fine strainer, you can use gauze folded several times. Squeeze all the juice out of the pulp. It turns out about two hundred milliliters of juice, which we mix in a saucepan with boiled water. If there is less ginger juice, then we calculate the proportion of 1: 3 (water is three times more juice). We put the saucepan on a small fire, bring the water to a boil. As soon as it boils, we make the smallest fire, and then add honey or sugar. Mix everything thoroughly until completely dissolved and turn off the heat. Pour the resulting drink into a kettle and serve. To your health!

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Milk 400 ml. Bitter chocolate 70 g. Cocoa 2 tbsp. l. Cinnamon 1 pc. Star anise 2 pcs. Cardamom 1 pc. Marshmellow to taste Heat the milk in a saucepan and add the spices. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Let the milk sit with the spices for 10 minutes. Strain the milk and discard the spices. Return the milk to the pot. Add chocolate and cocoa powder. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly until the chocolate boils gently and completely melts. Pour into mugs, garnish with marshmallows and serve.

5min 5min Cocktails And this is a watermelon variation on the theme. Those who like to drink tea will certainly appreciate it. In particular, we recommend it to those who like both green tea and watermelon. They complement each other perfectly, quenching thirst.
1/4 watermelon Green tea to taste Mint to taste Lime to taste Grind the peeled and cut watermelon with a blender. As in the previous recipe, strain the puree through a sieve. The pulp is no longer needed (do not throw it away, as an option, you can make a marshmallow from it). And pour cold green tea into the resulting juice. Garnish with a sprig of mint or a wedge of lime when serving.

5min 5min Cocktails Winter coffee with spices is a drink specially for drinking in cold winter and enjoying a good mood!
Espresso coffee 1 pc. Milk 50 g. Bitter chocolate 10 g. May honey 1 g. Ground ginger to taste Cardamom to taste Cocoa to taste Melt chocolate and honey in a cup in a water bath, add spices. Pour in a shot of espresso and stir. Whisk the milk into a froth and gently pour into a cup with a drink. Sprinkle with cocoa powder on top.

5min 10min Cocktails There are various methods and recipes for making Irish coffee. For example, hot black coffee is poured into a special glass vessel with a capacity of about 150 cm³. Add granulated sugar to it and stir with a spoon until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then whiskey is poured in and the cocktail is decorated with whipped cream, shifting it with a "cap" on the surface of the drink. The same cocktail, only under a different name, can be prepared by replacing the whiskey with cognac or dark rum.
Coffee 80 ml. Whiskey 40 ml. Brown cane sugar 1 tsp Whipped cream 30 ml. Pour hot black coffee into a glass bowl. Add sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved. Then pour in the whiskey. Pour into a glass and garnish with whipped cream.

10min 10min Cocktails Masala tea is a spicy tea, the love for which arises in many from the very first sip. A savory combination of Indian spices and hot milk will please many lovers of exotic drinks.
Milk 2 stack. Water 1 stack. Black tea 15 g. Green cardamom 10 pcs. Black cardamom 1 pc. Cloves 3 pcs. Black peppercorns 3 pcs. Ginger root to taste Ground nutmeg to taste Cinnamon 1 tsp Prepare the masala tea mixture. Peel and grate the ginger root. Break the cardamom, peel the seeds. Crush the cloves and allspice. Grind the nutmeg. Put all the spices (except ginger) in a mortar and grind until a powder is formed. Boil milk and water. Add spices, ginger and cook over low heat. Add sugar to taste and stir well. Add loose leaf tea. Bring to a boil again. Reduce heat and simmer for about 4-5 minutes. Remove from heat, let it brew a little under the lid.

10min 20min Cocktails Pineapple tea - The amount of sugar needs to be adjusted to taste - someone likes it sweeter, while someone, on the contrary, is sour.
Green tea 200 ml. Pineapple juice 50 ml. Lemon 1/2 pc. Cardamom 3 pcs. Sugar 1 tsp Mint 2 pcs. Cut off a circle of lemon. Remove the zest from the rest. Brew green tea, add sugar, lemon zest, cardamom and let it brew for 15-20 minutes. Cool and drain. Fill a tall glass with ice and squeeze the remaining lemon juice onto it. Top with pineapple juice and tea. Decorate with mint and lemon circles.

10min 10min Cocktails Spicy tea with cinnamon and apples - tea can be replaced with hibiscus - then the drink will turn out to be even more aromatic and healthy. You can drink this even at night in unlimited quantities.
Black tea 2 tsp Cinnamon 1 pc. Anise 3 pcs. Cloves 4 pcs. Apple chips 8 pcs. Water 600 ml. May honey to taste Boil water in a small saucepan or saucepan. Put anise stars, cinnamon stick, cloves in boiling water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Remove from stove. Pour in black tea, put in apple chips, they will add a pleasant sweet note. Cover and let it brew for 2-3 minutes. Pour into cups adding sugar or honey.

May honey 30 g. Americano coffee 160 ml. Cinnamon to taste Cinnamon sticks 1 pc. Mix honey with freshly squeezed or regular orange juice, pour in coffee and stir with a cinnamon stick. Garnish with an orange wedge sprinkled with ground cinnamon.

10min 10min Cocktails The brightness of the contrasts of a scalding drink and icy cream. Strong hot coffee with toasted whiskey and chilled whipped cream. Brew coffee of that strength and using the same technology as you usually do.
Coffee 250 ml. Whiskey 100 ml. Sugar to taste Cream 35% fat 200 ml. Making coffee. Whip the cream. Put half of the cream in the refrigerator to cool. We combine in a container half of the cream, the one that we have not chilled, whiskey, coffee and sugar. We mix. Pour into glasses, decorate with chilled cream

You do not need to strictly adhere to recipe recommendations, feel free to experiment with varieties of your favorite tea, this will help to qualitatively transform the taste.

Hot Toddy Cocktail Ingredients:

• Whiskey - 30 ml
• Flower honey - 1 tablespoon
• Lemon - ¼ pcs.
• Hot water - 1 tbsp.
• Tea bags - 1 pc.

Making the Hot Toddy Cocktail:

Make tea according to your favorite recipe.

Place honey in a glass for making Irish coffee. Add an ounce of whiskey, lemon juice. Stir. The acidic environment will quickly melt even the most sugared beekeeping product.

Pour hot tea over the base. Mix gently with a spoon.

Interesting Facts:

Simplicity makes this hot drink successful. The bottom line is that most black and green teas go well with the sweetness of honey and lemon sourness.

According to the cocktail sages, "Hot Toddy" can be any drink with honey, lemon and tea, and the base spirit is often replaced with rum, brandy or cognac. But if you add gin to the cocktail instead of whiskey, then the name will change to “Gene Toddy”. Strange, isn't it?

The Hot Toddy cocktail is labor intensive. First, you need to properly brew the tea, have time to mix the ingredients and drink until the temperature drops. It takes at least 5 minutes even for a professional to prepare a portion of hot tea.

If Russians are used to fighting colds with raspberry jam, then the Irish and Scots use the Hot Toddy drink for treatment, which has an excellent taste, perfectly warms and saturates the body with vitamin C. This tea with whiskey, honey and lemon is the British analogue of the more popular grog. punch and mulled wine, but it is easier and faster to prepare.

Historical reference. The Hot Toddy cocktail was invented in Ireland in the 17th century, and a few decades later the Scots became addicted to this drink. In the cold, damp climates of both countries, whiskey diluted with hot tea was the best drink to keep warm. Ladies also liked "Toddy" because it was low alcohol and fragrant.

Originally "toddy" was the name of the Indian spiced palm wine, which came to Europe thanks to the British East India Company. In the first Hot Toddy recipes, sailors heated palm wine with spices, honey and lemon, trying to make something like mulled wine, but the taste was mediocre. Then the Irish came up with the idea of ​​replacing Indian wine with hot tea with whiskey, and this is how the modern version of Hot Toddy appeared.

The Scots put forward another version, according to which "Hot Toddy" with whiskey is named after the famous natural spring Tod's Well in Edinburgh.

Composition and proportions:

• whiskey (scotch, bourbon) - 100 ml;
• water (boiling water) - 300 ml;
• tea (brewing) - 1 teaspoon;
• honey - 2 teaspoons;
• lemon - 1 piece;
• cinnamon - 1 stick (optional);
• cloves - 1-2 buds (optional).

If you replace whiskey with Calvados and take 30-40 ml of apple juice instead of lemon, you get an alternative cocktail - Apple Toddy.

Classic Hot Toddy Recipe

1. Pour boiling water over the tea leaves. Stir, cover, leave for 2-3 minutes.

2. Squeeze lemon juice into tea, pour in whiskey, add honey, stir.

3. Strain the drink through a strainer, add cloves and cinnamon if desired.

4. Serve Hot Toddy hot or warm. Garnish with a lemon wedge.