" Apple Brandy?”
“It’s for my tea,” she explained. “Medicinal, you know.”
“Medicinal?” The Reverend tried to hide a smile.
“Well, yeah,” Maddy started to smile herself. “Without the brandy, it’d be just some crumpled up leaves floatin’ in warm water… and that’d just make me sick!”
--Aunt Maddy from The Ragtime Coven "

― Bruce Jenvey ,