Cold Remedy

It’s cold, and no doubt it’s going to get colder. Some of my colleagues are currently enjoying temperatures of -35°C, and will no doubt pick up the odd cold along the way. With this in mind I thought that I’d post my favourite cold remedy, courtesy of an old mailing list:

Ingredients

  • 1 Lemsip max strength sachet or similar, lemon recommended
  • 1 soluable vitamin C tablet, lemon flavour preferable, orange at a pinch. Go for 1000mg Vitamin C, or the 500m Vitamin C/Zing tablets if you can find them
  • 1/2 Lemon
  • Hot water
  • Honey to taste
  • Mug

    Preparation

    1. Empty the sachet into a mug
    2. Add soluable tablet
    3. Squeeze half a lemon in
    4. Pour in hot (not boiling) water. Cue massive frothing – stand well back!
    5. Add honey to sweeten

Serving suggestion

Drink fast – it’s got a kick, but won’t be pleasant!

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One Response to “Cold Remedy”

Aside from probably overdosing you on Vitamin C, sounds like it’d work well!!

However I feel as though I must post the old traditional:

Ingredients :
– A good measure of whiskey (preferably a decent scotch, none of this tenesee crap – single malts the best, but it’s understandable if you don’t want to waste it). – 2tsp of sugar. – A slice of lemon squeezed. – Some boiling water.

Preparation:
– Whiskey first. – Sugar next. – Lemon next. – Water finally. (looks like a scripting language!)

Drink when it stops scalding your mouth!

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