How to Make the Warming Apple Brandy Cocktail

The problem with winter is that you can be done with it long before it’s done with you.

For me, it always hits around mid-February: That feeling when you wake up and with heavy lids look outside to find that it is yet again gray and cold, and something deep inside you just snaps. The myriad indignities of winter now seem too much to bear—the slushy puddles, the numb fingers, that frigid first step out of the shower—all of it interminable, day after dreary day. December was…