Get this all-star, easy-to-follow Hot Toddy recipe from Alton Brown. Hot Toddy is a great cocktail for the cold & flu season. It may not have any real medicinal value, but it can make you feel better. Find the recipe for Hot Toddy and other bourbon recipes at Epicurious.com A great evening relaxer when you need something to help relieve that irritating cold. The Hot Toddy is a popular warm drink and there are many recipe variations of the original whiskey, lemon, and honey toddy and this is a collection of those. The Hot Toddy is a popular warm drink and the recipe is very easy to follow: your choice of brandy, rum, or whiskey with hot tea, lemon, and honey. Imbibe magazine recipe hot toddy. Photograph: Felicity Cloake In this country at least, a hot toddy generally implies whisky. There's something about the slightly. A friend of mine swears by fireball (cinnamon) whiskey to knock out a bad cold. It's powerful stuff but in my opinion took the typical hot toddy up a notch! A hot toddy, also hot totty and hot tottie as well as hot whisky in Scotland, is typically a mixed drink made of liquor and water with honey (or, in some recipes. A delicious recipe for Hot Toddy, with honey, tea, brandy and lemon. Also lists similar drink recipes.