Toddies
6 recipes
This Field Manual holds 6 recipes in the toddy family. A toddy is spirit, sugar and hot water, with lemon and spice as the usual additions. Jerry Thomas printed the sling in 1862 as the same drink with nutmeg grated on top, and the hot drinks here all grew from that frame.
Heat is the technique. Warm the glass or mug first, use water just off the boil and never boil anything with spirit in it. Butter, cream and coffee change the texture without changing the build: a Hot Buttered Rum and an Irish Coffee are both a sweetened spirit made long with something hot. The water also stretches the drink, so a toddy tastes milder than the spirit in it would suggest.
Base Spirit
Difficulty Level
Blue Blazer
A Blue Blazer is 60ml of Scotch and 60ml of water just off the boil, set alight and poured in a flaming arc between two metal mugs four or five times, then put out, sweetened with
Brandy Sling (Hot)
A hot Brandy Sling is 50ml of brandy, 20ml of fresh lemon juice and 15ml of sugar syrup in a warmed heatproof glass, topped with 90ml of water just off the boil, stirred, and
Hot Buttered Rum
A Hot Buttered Rum is 60ml of dark rum poured over about 50g of spiced butter batter in a warmed mug, topped with 150ml of water just off the boil and stirred until the butter
Hot Toddy
A Hot Toddy is 60ml Scotch, 15ml honey syrup, 15ml fresh lemon juice and 120ml water just off the boil. Stir the honey syrup, lemon and water in a warmed mug, add the whisky last,
Hot Toffee Apple
A Hot Toffee Apple is 50ml of bourbon and 15ml of caramel syrup in a heatproof mug, topped with 150ml of cloudy apple juice warmed until it steams and never boiled, then stirred
Irish Coffee
An Irish Coffee is 50ml of Irish whiskey and a teaspoon of demerara sugar stirred into 120ml of hot filter coffee in a warmed glass, with 50ml of cream whipped to the texture of