Friday, December 11, 2009

What drinks can make at home?

What drinks can make at home? 



If the best drinks in the winter may well be called hot teas and coffee, the summer is for them to forget: your "water diet" in the heat should be different variety, richness and richness in vitamins. Moreover, before you open all the possibilities, the main thing - do not be lazy to cook: 

1. Juices: Vegetable and fruit 
Glass of fresh juice is always nice refreshing! It is pleasant to feel like bracer vitamins fills every cell of the organism. Juices are not bored. After all, every time you can take different fruits or vegetables, or make blended (a mixture of different fruits and berries) juices. 

If you konserviruete juice for the winter, remember: you can not store more than a year, in a dark cool place. Storage Temperature juice should be from one to 12 degrees and here the rule is applicable for storing wine: temperature must be constant. At temperatures above 25 degrees juices quickly lose their flavor and nutritional properties, and the light quickly turn brown and discolored. 

2. Compotes and Kiselev 
Most are at our desks, because their easy to cook and they are quite cheap. Adding cooking more or less starch, can be boiled liquid jelly as a beverage for dinner or thick - to the morning porridge. 

3. Kvasy 
Most of us know kvass, but our ancestors were preparing it, and apple and cranberry ... Perhaps, in every village, every housewife had her own, special recipe of this useful and thirst-quenching drink. 

We often buy the weight in the store, because the rhythm of life changed, not every lady has time for the preparation of this kvass. Nevertheless, no one store kvass not compare their properties and taste of home, so will try to at least one of the many recipes. 

4. Fruit drinks 
They are as diverse as kvasses and juices, do not come with bread and vegetables. Often they are made from grapes. From fresh juices they differ only the presence of another phase of preparation: pulp, which remained after the berries and fruits from the pressed juice is boiled and the broth that is combined with the juice. The less water, the saturated juice. It turns out that's a kind of compromise between the juice and compote. 

Fruit drinks are served to the table, chilled or with ice, which lay directly in the glass or served separately. 

5. Dzhulepy 
Not very popular drink, is not it? However, it is very tasty! Dzhulep aromatic, thirst-quenching and refreshing. After all, it was imperative is mint. Components dzhulepa connect, not stirring, so every cup of beverage is prepared separately, using a volumetric ware. 

My favorite recipe - tea-apple dzhulep: 10 ml of tea syrup *, 170 ml of sour apple juice, 20 ml mint syrup *. When you apply - add 1-2 ice cubes. 

* Mint syrup preparation is easy: 50 g of dried leaves of peppermint pour 2,5 glasses heated to the boiling water, close tightly and leave for 40-50 minutes. Strain, add 3 and a quarter cup of sugar and cook at low boil for 10-15 minutes, stirring constantly. As a reward for his labors get a liter of mint syrup! 

* Tea syrup preparation is somewhat more complicated. Brew tea with boiling water (25 g per 150 ml of water), draw for 15-20 minutes for the tea extract. While tea infused, get 5 pieces cloves, pound, pour boiling water (not more than 100 ml), bring to a boil and strain through a sieve. 1 g of citric acid Stir a small amount of warm water and connect with the infusion of cloves (you can substitute fresh lemon juice). Of the three and a quarter cup of sugar and water, cook the sugar syrup, then add the tea extract, bring to a boil. In the resulting syrup pour infusion carnations with citric acid and mix. This syrup should also get 1 liter. 

6. Fizy 
As dzhulepy, prepared with the use of syrups. But their main component - carbonated water. It is a pity that traps a thing of the past! What a gorgeous hat was obtained from a powerful jet aeration, foaming mixture of juice and syrup! This drink is also preparing a la carte and served with ice. For example, nat "Dawn" is prepared from 80 ml of pomegranate drink, 10 ml of coffee syrup * and 90 ml of soda. 

* Coffee syrup - it is 3 tablespoons of coffee brewed (fill and bring to a boil) in 2 and a quarter cups of boiling water and seasoned as 10-15 minutes, then strained, connect to the usual three and a quarter cups of sugar and cooked for 5 minutes . 

7. Cocktails 
This is another story. They come in cream, milk, fruit and berry, vitamin, alcohol, rarer and other variations. Milkshakes are usually fluff, fruit is poured into a glass, preventing the mixing of liquids. Carbonated water, if it is included in the recipe, is usually added last. Very nice puff cocktails. 

Complement cocktails taken garnish: ice cubes, a slice of lemon or orange, which gave one or another form, slices of fruit, crushed nuts or grated chocolate. 

8. Smoothies 
This thick drink made from whipped fruit, berries, vegetables and fresh juices come to us from the West recently, but has become a very popular drink among young women seeking a healthy lifestyle, as well as an excellent tool to maintain vitality. In addition to fruits and vegetables , smoothies are often added to fat-free yogurt or milk, nuts, muesli, honey, syrups, and then it becomes so nutritious, that can easily replace a full meal: for example, breakfast or lunch. 

The beauty of smoothies that make it is not difficult and time: just enough to mix all your favorite ingredients for a powerful blender to a state of homogeneous mass within a few seconds! Smoothies served with ice or without it - your choice. 

9. Home-made lemonade 
Ruby juice and sunny orangeade, emerald mint and golden lemon ... Prepared from natural fruits and herbs, cool and refreshing home-made lemonade are encouraged not only taste good, they look. 

Today the culture of self-preparation of soft drinks is mostly lost - at home and in the country, and at the picnic, we are mostly satisfied with products of factory production. Meanwhile, home-made lemonade and fruit drinks benefit not only from natural components that are included in their composition. Moderately sweet and still, they quench your thirst much better than any other drink, and their natural color charm of its beauty and brightness. 

10. Cold teas and tea drinks 
It turns out that tea can change its temperature depending on the season: in winter we drink hot in the summer can easily spoil a cold drink on the basis of tea. And believe me - it will be not less aromatic and tasty than the usual winter option, because the cold tea, you can add a variety of ingredients: spices, herbs, milk, cream, fruit, berries, syrup and even alcohol. But most importantly - a lot of ice and cool!