Tonight, after staying home sick from work and not having felt all that well for most of last week either, I needed something to warm me up on this freezing ass cold night.
I have been out of my usual hot drink, sugar free hot apple cider, for a couple of days and I had even tried some decaffeinated Lipton tea last night as a stand in. As many of you know, I have been caffeine free for over two years and even though this tea was “decaffeinated” it still contains 2mg of caffeine per 8 oz serving — which had a noticeable effect on me last night. So tonight, I decided I had to whip up something until I got another box of apple cider mix to tide me over…
After searching the web for various hot toddy recipes and scouring the house for the ingredients they suggested, I had to come up with an alternative way of soothing my aching head and stuffy nose as I didn’t have most of what the drink recipes were calling for.
Not being one to follow recipes as directed, I have absolutely no problems experimenting a little bit with what I have in the cabinets and seeing what little treat I can come up with, something similar to what Paul in Six Degrees of Separation does I suppose.
I dragged out a bottle of spiced rum, which we’ve had since the beginning of time it seems, some organic honey, cinnamon powder (I don’t have any sticks around, bummer), and lime juice. I started the water and added the honey, a shot of rum, and cinnamon and let them sit. After I got the water boiling pretty well, I added it to the drink and stirred it well (unfortunately with a little too much cinnamon as it was in a pile at the bottom of the cup later) and added quite a bit of lime juice.
Now, I’m no connoisseur of hot toddies but this one ended up being absolutely fantastic. I really enjoyed it and didn’t think it needed anything else. All other hot toddies call for lemon juice instead but I can’t see how it would be any better that way — then again I don’t like lemon juice :)
Anyway, I probably won’t be drinking one of these every night like the apple ciders I enjoy but it might be a nice Friday or Saturday night ritual for the remainder of this bitterly cold winter!
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