The history of the Toddy dates all the way back to British-controlled India in the early 17th century. The Hindi word ”taddy” meant “beverage made from fermented palm sap”. By 1786 the Brits had changed the official meaning of taddy and defined it as “beverage made of alcoholic liquor with hot water, sugar, and spices”. The British claimed it as their own and started serving it in pubs during the winter months using Scotch whisky, hot water and exotic spices from India.

Another origin story tells of a 19th-century Irish physician named Dr. Robert Bentley Todd who used to prescribe his patients a mix of brandy, cinnamon, sugar and hot water, making it a Toddy. In an article in the Burlington Free Press in 1837 about ”How to Take Cold” made out the hot toddy to be a cure-all but even though we all know that a cure-all is really a cure-nothing a hot toddy is still a fabulous drink on a cold winter day.

The Form 2000 cup was designed in 1954 by design legend Raymond Loewy for Rosenthal.