Is drinking "Hottie Totties" for a Cold a good idea?!
Question: Please include your way of making them.
Answers: Please include your way of making them.
I have been told again, and again by old timers that they are really good for colds. I tried it, and HECK yeah they work.
I just have the juice of a lemon with a tea spoon of sugar and a couple of shots of whisky in warm water.
Sometimes that isn't enough but after the second one, you forget you even had a cold.
So they say!! Actually anything hot is good for a cold, like chicken soup, hot water and lemon and so on. The steam of the hot drinks loosens the mucus, doesn't matter what you drink as long as it's hot!!
It certainly can't hurt. All it is, is hot lemon-honey tea and alcohol. Lemon is good for vitamin C, honey soothes the throat, and alcohol is in Ny-quil, so somebody must have thought it was good for a cold!
I just made one for my hubby yesterday:
juice of one lemon
1 Tbsp. honey
1/4 c. boiling water
1 jigger brandy
The alcohol relaxes you and puts you to sleep. It is the same ingredient in cough and cold meds like NyQuil.
The tea or lemon or honey that is mixed with it, and heated, makes it taste better.
The warmth help break up some of the congestion both in the sinuses as well as the chest.
SO yes, it does help. I never measure, but I actually use about a shot of peach brandy (home made, best stuff in the world) with a i guess roughly a teaspoon or too of lemon, and a dollop of honey the size of a pea maybe. I heat usually in microwave, bc that small amt isnt worth trying to heat on the stove. The one time I tried, I burned it. If you do use the stove, make a larger batch, and use a double boiler.
I am very sensitive to alcohol, so I make this in a very small quanity. Most people will make about a cups worth and sip. I suppose I still could with my small amount of alcohol if I used some tea in the mixture. I actually take the shot in 3-4 sips, then follow with a cup of warm tea and about a table spoon of honey
I think you mean a hot toddy. You can make it anyway you like with whatever seems to help.