chile-lemon vocal tonic

[Aji hombre]

Today my voice was in really crappy shape but I needed to record a lecture, so I came up with this:

juice of 2 lemons
sliced hot green chile (I used an unidentified green my wife found at an Indian market, which is about four times the size and heat of a serrano)

steep that in 1.5 cups of boiling water for a couple of minutes.

strain, and sweeten with a tablespoon of honey.

It tasted nice and cleaned up the voice for the recording sesh good enough, too.

 

[RaelThomas]

Do y'all in the US of A remedy a sore throat with a honey & lemon? Similar thing.

- 2 lemons (juiced)
- 1 tbs honey
- hot water
I usually add peppers (naturally!) and some sliced fresh ginger as well.

Good stuff!

Fun-fact: Andy Serkis drank something along these lines every-day whilst flming Lord of the Rings so he could do the "gollum voice".

 

[westin]

NyQuil works well too... Though the lecture may have been unintelligible.

Fun-fact: Kurt Cobain supposedly drank NyQuil while recording the 'Nevermind' album. :-P

 

[RaelThomas]