Apple Hot Toddy (Modern)

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Jerry Thomas’s pome toddy recipe, from his classical “How to Mix Drinks” bartender’s manual, archetypal published successful the precocious 19th century, calls for fractional a baked apple. But if you don’t consciousness similar waiting 40 minutes for an pome to bake, and past figuring retired however to worldly that blistery mushy pome into a mug portion leaving country for brandy, sweetener and boiling water, effort this look for a bully apple-forward toddy. Use a dark, robust-flavored maple syrup. Note that the mixing method suggested here, successful which you interval 1 fractional of a Boston shaker wrong different that’s afloat of blistery water, helps sphere arsenic overmuch vigor arsenic imaginable — if you don’t person a Boston shaker, you tin marque this portion successful a tiny metallic vessel acceptable implicit a tiny cookware of simmering h2o (a makeshift double-boiler).

From Spirits columnist M. Carrie Allan.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups water
  • 1 1/2 ounces pome brandy, specified arsenic Laird’s
  • 3/4 ounce maple syrup
  • 1/2 ounce caller citrus juice
  • 1/2 ounce pome liqueur, specified arsenic Berentzen
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • One (3-inch) cinnamon stick, for garnish (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    181

  • Carbohydrates

    24 g

  • Sodium

    7 mg

  • Sugar

    21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Spirits columnist M. Carrie Allan.

Tested by M. Carrie Allan.

Published January 25, 2023

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Updated March 17, 2026

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