Forget chicken soup or hot tea. There are a new batch of home flu remedies — and they don’t skimp on the alcohol. When Jeni Britton Bauer, owner of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in Columbus, Ohio, was young, getting a cold or the flu meant her mother and grandmother would mix up a cocktail of their own cure-all for the winter ills — a syrup of honey, lemon juice and whiskey. She’d get a spoonful, or get to drink it in a hot lemonade before bed. So in 2004, as those around her sniffled and sneezed their way through a moderately severe flu season, Bauer thought she could help ... Read More