Hidden Answers To Jerrys Revealed The fashionable hot toddy is a generic reference for any good beverage base - coffee, tea, scorching cider, a juice mix - that's heated and mixed with spices "or one thing else," says Jeanette Hurt of Bay View, writer of the new "Wisconsin Cocktails" (University of Wisconsin Press, $30), Jerrys in an interview. The strategy of creating a tasty hot beverage is as straightforward as adding one appropriate ingredient to an already-profitable base. Trends come and go, however the Tom and Jerry gets its personal chapter in Hurt’s guide as a result of "it by no means went out of style in Wisconsin." Certainly one of her favorite scorching drink tales is about a Milwaukee bar raided throughout Prohibition with a steaming batch of Tom and Jerrys behind the bar. Form of like a progressive dinner, solely featuring a special hot drink and snack at each house.