[Herbwifemama]

This sounds like the Fire Cider I made last fall:

Fire Cider

It takes six weeks to 'brew' so if you find there's not quite enough time before Gift-Giving, you may want to make it in one-pint jars labeled with the date when it WILL be ready and instructions for 'decanting', and give it just like that.

For each one-pint jar, you need:
1/4cup grated horseradish
(that will clear your sinuses just in the GRATING!! );
1/4cup grated ginger root;
1/8cup finely chopped garlic;
1/2cup finely chopped onion;
and a pinch of cayenne.

Now. All the 'gratings' go into a pint glass jar, fill the jar with apple cider vinegar, put the lid on, label it, and just WAIT for six weeks. After the magic date, strain out all the gratings (I swear, one friend took the gratings and smeared them on bread and ate them!)
Like I said, some folks take a teaspoonful as medicine when they have the snoots, some folks love it so much they throw it all over their salads, and one friend made it her 'nightcap', sipping a tiny shot glassful before bed.....I would imagine splashing some in soup would be something else.....

Herbwife's version of master tonic, I guess..