Alcohol As Medicinal Remedy - #1

This is #1 in a series of occasional articles.

For this recipe you will need:

• One nasty cough, ideally coupled with an unpleasant cold
• One bottle of cheap Brandy
• One large mug
• One bottle of Tesco organic honey
• One tea spoon
• One kettle
• Tap water

Boil the tap water in the kettle, and allow it cool for a few minutes. Add 2 teaspoons of honey into the mug , then add 2 teaspoons of brandy.

Then decide that, actually, 2 teaspoons doesn’t look like a lot, so chug some more brandy in for good measure. Top up with the hot water, until the mug is full.

Stir, and taste. After tasting, decide that, actually, there’s not enough honey in there, and it’s quite possible that, by adding more honey, there’d be potential for more brandy. Add an additional 1.5 teaspoons of honey, followed by an additional chug of brandy.

Check brandy bottle, marvel at how much brandy you’d actually thrown into the mug. Shrug, wander off into lounge to continue watching Top Gear and consume beverage.

Wonder about halfway down the mug if this was a good idea. Consume entire contents of mug, stagger off to bed, ideally falling over a number of strategically placed kids’ toys as you go.