Board Thread:New on Recipes Wiki/@comment-72.84.218.39-20131120152624

This is an outstanding recipe. I clipped something similar from my hometown newspaper about 20 years ago. The only thing I do differently is to grate the ginger to expose more of it to the boiling water. It's tough to drink as is and it takes a lot more honey -- at least for me.

I'm married to a skeptical tough guy, and he immediately asks me to make this as soon as he starts feeling something coming on. It only took one time for him to remember it worked. Also, a neighbor was hit with a horrendous respiratory illness/fever that she couldn't shake for months, even with antibiotics. She started drinking this concoction and started feeling better after a few days. She was so spooked about this illness after previous excellent health and being hit with it a relatively young age (late 50s), that she and her husband started drinking a mug of this nightly and called it their "toddy." 