Honey In Beverages

Honey In Beverages


Honey added to beverages offers another grateful field for wholesome mixtures. Honey added to a cup of coffee or tea imparts an exquisite aroma, besides sweetening and laxative effects. Soft drinks, for example lemonades, sodas and fruit punches, mixed with well-ripened honey are delicious. Honey milk-shake, egg-nogg, spiced milk must be tried only once. In cases of grippe several tablespoonfuls of honey with lemon juice in a cup of boiling water or red wine, sipped while hot, will keep the doctor away more successfully than a basketful of apples. Honey mixed with carbonated water binds the gases.

Alcoholic drinks, cocktails and whisky mixed with honey are delectable. A quart of old sherry with an equal amount of water and whole cloves, sticks of cinnamon, allspice, a few grains of salt and honey, to suit the taste, boiled slowly for several hours and then allowed to stand a while, will make an unforgettable drink on cold winter evenings. It must be served hot after being strained. The author delights in offering this drink to his guests and it is often commented upon during a cheerful evening. The cup produces warmth, benefits the digestion and stimulates without invading, as do most hard drinks, the head, feet, heart, kidneys, and not infrequently, the liver—as a rule—all at once.