Hot drinks are well warmed with wine, so they are prepared usually in the winter. Served in glasses with coasters. Glasses before you pour them drinks, to warm up in hot water. For the preparation of hot beverages are usually used: sugar, eggs, milk, honey, fruits, citrus fruits, sweet blackberry juice, strawberries, raspberries, pineapples, strawberries and spices - ground cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, vanilla, etc. Of alcohol use red or white wine, beer, rum, liqueur and vodka.
For hot drinks include punch, mulled wine, grog, NEGAS and others.
Punch is one of the oldest drinks of this kind. The word "punch" comes from the ancient Indian "punch", which means "five". Once the drink prepared from five components: sugar (or honey), water (or tea), spices, wine and rum. Now those rules are not followed so strictly. Depending on the time of the punch can be prepared as a cold or hot. Yet usually drink it hot.
Toddy - pleasant, warming drink, reminiscent of grog, but it is made of weaker drinks than grog, for example, from white table wine. For punch, brandy, rum and whiskey taking 1 / 3 less than for grog. In the punch also add lemon or pomegranate juice, cinnamon and cloves. Krepkim pleasant spicy flavor and sweet aroma of liquor must first of all these aromatic substances. Punch does not excite the appetite, so they decided not to submit to appetizers.
Prepare a punch is not very difficult, but it is necessary to observe certain rules. First of all, do not pour hot water directly in the rum or brandy, as this one fading aromatic substances. First, dissolve the sugar in hot (not boiling) water and then add the rum or brandy. Prepared punch is heated to a temperature of 60-70 "C.
Punch is more convenient to cook once in several portions in porcelain cups (like tureen) or enamelware. Served punch in the high, pre-heated glasses, a hot toddy (75-80 ° C) - in the tea porcelain, earthenware or glass cups.
Mulled wine - wine is sweetened with spices, filed in the hot.
Of the spices used cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg. As a base charge composure strong wines such as sherry, port, madeira, marsala.
NEGAS - sweetened with spices, wine (usually a port), diluted with hot water.
The main component, as in mulled wine, is a strong wine. In some recipes are sometimes used and citrus juices.
