Those Who Stalk the Night Need No Caps
Except for this one, based on the much sought after water of life. It will clear your senses and loosen your limbs, freeing you from the day (or night) that came before. Use with care, and let the master wield the tool and not the tool the master.
With style.
Ingredients
3 T single-malt scotch
1 1/2 t lemon juice
1 1/2 t corn syrup or honey
1/2 C boiling water
1-3 whole cloves
1 slice lemon or cinnamon stick (opt.)
Method
Combine the first three ingredients in appropriately aristocratic glassware, and blend until smooth. Add boiling water and cloves and stir. Garnish with a slice of lemon or cinnamon stick. Serves one, and who really needs anyone else?
October 26th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Re: Nights that that need no caps:
Guatemalan variant said to cure pneumonia if used 5 days in a row between a hot shower and bed:
put 2 T “whiskey” (Guatemalans don’t do “Scotch”) or rum in the bottom of a mug. Simmer about 1 cup milk and a cinnamon stick for a few minutes and pour over EtOH in the mug. Add 1-3 tsp honey to taste. (When a patient protested not liking the taste of cooked honey, the reponse from the bruja was “This is medicine; taste has nothing to do with it.”
PS. Boiling a cinnamon stick for 4 minutes in water, pouring into a tall mug and adding skim milk to taste also seems to work for those who don’t enjoy the feeling of being drunk, sick, and on antibiotics at the same time.