Cocktails/Brews Apple Toddy

apple toddy
(from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree, 1878)

Ingredients:

1 gallon apple brandy, or whiskey​

1-1/2 gallons hot water, well-sweetened​

1 dozen large apples, well roasted​

2 grated nutmegs​

1 gill allspice​

1 gill cloves​

1 pinch mace​

1/2 pint good rum​

Instructions:

One gallon of apple brandy or whiskey, and one and a half gallon of hot water, well-sweetened, one dozen large apples, well roasted, two grated nutmegs, one gill of allspice, one gill of cloves, a pinch of mace. Season with half pint of good rum. Let it stand three or four days before using. - Col. S.​

This was a potent drink.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

apple toddy

(from The Great Western Cook Book, Or Table Receipts: Adapted to Western Housewifery, by Anna Maria Collins, 1857)

Ingredients:

3 fine pippin apples​

sugar​

1/2 pint brandy​

1 pint water​

cloves​

1/2 nutmeg​

Instructions:

Roast or bake three fine pippins; let them be thoroughly done; put them in a bowl, beat them well with sugar, to your taste; pour over them a half pint of brandy, beat well; then add a pint of water, beat again, so as to have it well compounded; add a few cloves, and half a nutmeg.​

Photo by Andreas Rother, CC-2.5​

 

[Pat Young]

What makes a drink a toddy?

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

What makes a drink a toddy?

Basically, an alcoholic drink mixed with water or honey and spices, served hot.

 

[Pat Young]

Basically, an alcoholic drink mixed with water or honey and spices, served hot.

Thanks. I notice the recipe does not say to heat the liquid.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

Thanks. I notice the recipe does not say to heat the liquid.

I noticed that, too, and thought it odd! But, I wonder if the apples, still warmed from being roasted or baked, would be a sufficient amount of heat? Or, did the author take it for granted that the reader would know to heat it?....hmmmmm.....

 

[Pat Young]

I noticed that, too, and thought it odd! But, I wonder if the apples, still warmed from being roasted or baked, would be a sufficient amount of heat? Or, did the author take it for granted that the reader would know to heat it?....hmmmmm.....

Probably took it for granted. Never a good idea.

 

[donna]

My Granny loved to make a Toddy in winter before bedtime.

 

[donna]

Thought bump for Hot Toddy Day, Jan. 11.

 

[donna]

It is Hot Toddy Day. Good recipe from Albert.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

Cheers!

 

[Fairfield]

This is the weather for a Hot Toddy. Do you think that heated mead would approximate it?

 

[donna]

I would think you heat it. But as Albert wrote maybe hot apples be enough. Old recipe seemed to assume you knew a lot of what to do.

 

[captaindrew]

Sounds yummy

 

[Pollaco]

Sad to say I missed it yesterday but I feel I may need it tonight.And I think I'll melt a honey lemon cough drop or two in as well as leaving out the alcohol.