Hot chocolate with a good splash of Minttu which is a Peppermint Finnish liqueur - makes me feel much better 

That sounds yummy Pengy

I don't think my stomach could take that at the moment.
But I bet its great for colds and stuff.

Red grape or water  

Fruit and Barley diluted with hot water

Velvet - that red grape is yummy.

Charlie hot fruity drinks are great when you feel chilled all over.

For icky tummy's I still swear by gripe water even though it's supposed to be for babies 

Bovril is the ultimate comfort drink. It's yummy even when you're not ill. You can even dunk things in it if, like me, you pretend to be posh but actually aren't.

hot lucozade, or a drop of whiskey with sugar and hot water.

Like you I only got Lucozade or Cream Soda when I was ill as a child.
Now if I have a  really bad cold/feel feverish I have a Rusty Nail.

• 1 1/2 oz Scotch
• 3/4 oz Drambuie in the one glass,down in one.
• Wrap up and go to bed ,brand new in the morning .It never fails.

Hot lucozade

How does that work? Does it not lose it's fizz?

My Dad would swear by whisky in hot milk if he had a cold.
He hardly ever drank and sadly if he did not have any whisky he would just put a drop of sherry in instead

pop it in the microwave for 1 minute then cool it down a bit with fresh lucozade.

What sort of stuff do you dunk?

I am intrigued - did you invent it yourself and what made you want to try it?

My mum would make me a soup from oats and chicken stock (the real thing). I loved it for it's comfort and continued to make it for my children. Chicken Soup is very good for a lot of ailments anyway.

It absolutely is..

Sorry you are feeling poorly Isadora I like a mug of Heinz tomato soup when I am poorly....reminds me of my mum

Granny's Cure-All.

This isn't quite as vile as it sounds - honest!

1 tsp Cider Vinegar
1 tsp Honey.
3 tbs hot water.

Mix together, down it in one.  Watch aches, pains, ague and all round grottiness disappear (Personally I favour the more tasty route of a large dram).


Whatever you take, I hope it works soon and that you feel better.

Water

There used to be a product sold in the health food shops that was basically that .My Mum used to drink it because apparently cider vinegar has got properties that are good for arthritis and honey is amazingly good for the immune system.

love lucozade and wanted to try it hot so i did a scientific experiment and voila.leave the heated lucozade for a couple of minutes though before adding the fresh stuff else there could be an eruption. dangerous things microwaves.

Thanks Baz

Yep, Cagney water for me too.Or if I have slight appetite,minestrone cup of soup with croutons..

I love it

Yep.  And if you can get Manuka honey then all the better.

Also, if you suffer from hayfever then you should eat locally produced honey as it relieves the symptoms.  I don't suffer so I don't know how true this is though!

That is not just your granny's recipe, my mum used to force that down my neck when I was poorly as a child.

Sweet tea....

Hangover cure

Honey is very good as i have seen progs on the TV where they put it on wounds to kill off bacteria and help the healing process.

Hot Lucozade really ought to be against the law. Ditto cold Bovril. Some things just weren't meant to be.

Issy, you can dunk toast with butter in Bovril, and crisps. Bovril is very dunkable I'm sure each poster can experiment to find their own personal favourite dunking material as it were.

Ahhh....but did it work?  It always did for me, and now that Issy has mentioned the "H" word I shall confess that it worked for that too.

They absolutely do and it does work

Same here, when im really ill its lucozade. Last time i had it i was laid in bed with the other half, we both had flu for a week!!!! and i just drank lucozade and drunk some funny cough stuff that made us laugh a lot   I cant stand lucozade usually.


however if its self inflicted illness then it has to be iron bru !!!

Soup definately but I didn't think that was classed as a drink. 

My daughter swears by a can of Dr Pepper

If you can drink it from a cup then we can classify it as a drink

I never suffer hangovers, I just stay drunk....

I had the mother of all hangovers on Tuesday.... it took a lot of sweet tea I can tell you

have a gander at this, old cold recipies
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