Everything I know about healthy living I learned from Irish bartenders: “gin’ll make you depressed, sure it will,”* and a hot port or hot whiskey will cure what ails you.
To recreate at home … combine 1 part port and 1 part boiling water or 1 part whiskey and 2 parts boiling water (approximately). Add a slice of lemon studded with cloves, sugar to taste (I prefer none), and, if you fancy, a cinnamon stick.
Take two and call me in the morning.
* They claim it’s because of the many botanicals and herbs that go into gin, a belief I don’t happen to share. But I do believe in hot port. I’m currently combating acute sinusitis with it. That and a 14-day course of antibiotics. And yeah, I know your so-called doctors say you shouldn’t drink on antibiotics but I’ve never heard an Irish bartender say that.
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