Hot Whisky Toddy
A steaming, honey-sweet toddy of Scotch whisky and freshly squeezed lemon: perfect for cold evenings.
Ingredients
- Blended Scotch60 ml
- Lemon juice, freshly squeezed15 ml
- Honey15 ml
- Lemon, to garnish (optional)1 wheel
Method
- Warm a mug or toddy glass with boiling water, leave it for a minute, then pour the water away.
- Add the whisky, honey and lemon juice to the warm glass.
- Stir until the honey has completely dissolved.
- Top up with freshly boiled water, roughly twice the volume of the whisky, and stir gently.
- Garnish with a lemon wheel and serve at once.
About this drink
The toddy can be traced back to eighteenth-century Scotland and England, where hot water, sugar and spirits served both as comfort and as a home remedy for colds. The name may come from the Hindi tārī, a palm sap that British colonial soldiers mixed with spirit. Today it lives on as the ultimate winter drink: simple, warming and easy to make your own.
Questions and answers
What is a toddy good for?
The warm combination of whisky, honey and lemon is a classic comfort drink for cold evenings or a scratchy throat. Not a medical cure, but certainly a soothing one.
Why warm the glass for a toddy?
A cold glass pulls the heat straight out of the drink, so a minute of warming with boiling water keeps the toddy hot for noticeably longer at the table.
