Toddy
Toddy is an English name for different drinks. In its basic meaning, palm wine is meant. The term was invented by the British during the colonial period in India as a modification of a term in Hindi . Also in Ceylon, today: Sri Lanka , toddy is used as a term for the fresh palm wine that is served in the local toddy taverns .
Cocktail group
In America, the name was then used in the southern states for cocktails that contained rum , sugar and nutmeg and were prepared hot but drunk cold. Another name for these drinks was bombo .
Hot toddy
As Hot Toddy one is the toddy like drink of hard alcohol, sugar and water referred to, inter alia, in the United Kingdom , Australia, the United States, in Finland and in Sweden is drunk. Its origin has nothing to do with the cold drink of the same name. The basic recipe goes back to the 18th century in Scotland , when whiskey , hot water, sugar and lemon were mixed and spices were added, often with nutmeg , cinnamon and cloves . It was a drink for the winter. The name of the Hot Toddy is said to go back to the Tod's Well water source in Edinburgh . In New England , whiskey was often replaced by rum or brandy .
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Individual evidence
- Jump into the day with palm sap . In: FAZ , September 30, 2010, p. R 4
- ↑ a b Hot Toddies . In: Andrew F. Smith (Ed.): The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America . Volume 2: K-Z . Oxford University Press, Oxford u. a. 2004, p. 690 f.
- ↑ Toddy . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 29 : Tidsekvation – trompe . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 262 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).