About Us. Hot Toddy is a fun and fancy boutique specializing in vintage inspired clothing and accessories for the sophisticated lady. We offer apparel and jewelry. The Hot Toddy is one of the best and easiest warm cocktails you can make. Choose your booze for the base recipe and explore more ways to make it your own. You never heat honey in the microwave. It kills all the healing propertys of the honey. Add the honey to the hot mixture after it comes out of the nuke. A hot toddy, also known as hot whiskey in Ireland, is typically a mixed drink made of liquor and water with honey or, in some recipes, sugar, herbs such as tea. What do you like to put in your hot toddies, and if you dont favour them, what warms your cockles and cuts through your colds at this time of yearHot toddy Wikipedia. Information board highlighting the hot toddy at Ye Olde Red Cow pub in London. A hot toddy, also known as hot whiskey in Ireland, is typically a mixed drink made of liquor and water with honey or, in some recipes, sugar, herbs such as tea and spices, and served hot. Hot toddy recipes vary and are traditionally drunk before retiring for the night, or in wet or cold weather. Some believe the drink relieves the symptoms of the cold and fluin How to Drink, Victoria Moore describes the drink as the vitamin C for health, the honey to soothe, the alcohol to numb. PreparationeditA hot toddy is a mixture of a spirit usually whiskey, rum, or brandy, hot water, and honey or, in some recipes, sugar. Hot Tody' title='Hot Tody' />Additional ingredients such as cloves, a lemon slice or cinnamon in stick or ground form are often also added. The drink can also be made with tea instead of water. A common version in the Midwestern United States uses golden ginger ale, lemon, honey and Bourbon whiskey. In Wisconsin, brandy is often used instead of bourbon. A common version in Ontario typically consists of heated ginger ale, honey, and either whiskey or brandy. Canned Foods. It is often recommended to heat the ginger ale before adding the whisky or brandy, otherwise the heating process will reduce the alcoholic effects of the liquor. EtymologyeditThe 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 1. 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. See alsoeditReferenceseditMac. Kay, Charles. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch 1.