Warming drinks known to people for several centuries, among them there as alcoholic - mulled wine, grog, toddy, honey, Todd - and soft - mostly herbal infusions with herbs (teas), Russian sbiten, beverages based on chocolate and coffee. And if the drinks with alcohol in the main play warms a cold warning role, teas and herbal infusions can be therapeutic, helping to get rid of the disease has already begun, often much more efficient conventional tablets and, of course, no side effects.
A great advantage of "winter" drinks is that, knowing the basic rules of cooking, you can always please your loved ones a refined drink that consists only of your recipe, varying the ingredients to your taste and desire.
1. Glintwein
This is one of the most famous is the warming beverage. His foundation - hot wine with spices.
Even its name - «gluhende Wein», which translated from German means "burning wine" - breathes warmth and aroma of good quality wine and spices.
The recipe of mulled wine is simple: a small amount of water bring to a boil, put there spices and citrus zest, leave for, and then add warmed to 70 degrees wine.
The two mandatory conditions: the wine must be high quality (most commonly used varieties of red wine, but it is quite possible and even fun to try a drink of white wine, preferably cuhie and rather weak), and wine, in no event shall not boil!
It should not be a second warm drink - better to make a fresh batch or keep warm, mulled wine poured into a thermos. Also not recommended to use aluminum cookware.
Mulled wine is usually served in tall glasses, but it does not in principle. Sometimes the drink, poured into ceramic teacups, it seems much tastier.
Despite the existence of a large number of recipes for this drink, it is always interesting to experiment to find the ingredients for "their" mulled wine.
The classic recipe for mulled wine
Ingredients:
0,75 l red wine
nutmeg
6.7 clove buds,
1 / 3 cup water
1 tbsp. l. sugar
Preparation:
In hot water put nutmeg and cloves, bring to a boil, leave for 10-15 minutes.
Strain in the broth to dissolve the sugar and carefully, on the edge, add to warmed to 70 degrees wine.
Recipe for mulled wine with brandy and cinnamon
0,4 l red wine
75 ml brandy
50 ml vodka
50 g sugar
nutmeg to taste
pinch of cloves
3 pinches of cinnamon
2 peas allspice
Preparation:
Wine poured into an enamel bowl, fill in sugar, put spices, heat, stirring with a wooden spoon, but do not bring to a boil.
Pour the remaining alcoholic ingredients, heat up again without boiling.
Pour into a thermos, stand at least 1 hour.
2. Grog
We know, thanks to whom appeared grog. In 1740, the admiral ordered mandatory water to breed in those days, the daily rum ration for the sailors. Resourceful sailors quickly figured out what to do with received Burdo. It turned out that in a heated form, so even with the addition of spices get a very good drink, warms and protects against colds.
Since then, the admiral's nickname Grog, and we were very tasty and healthy drink, which is based over time, make tea and alcohol - rum, brandy or vodka.
Grog more democratic than mulled wine - its ingredients are sugar, honey, spices and seasonings, citrus fruits, candies and even whipped cream.
In the grog alcohol content is much higher than in mulled wine, so it must be consumed with great caution.
The classic recipe for grog
Ingredients:
50 g of tea brewing
0,75-1 l vodka
0,75-1 l water
200-250 g sugar
Preparation:
Boil 1-2 glasses of water, add the same amount of vodka and sugar.
All cook on low heat for 5 minutes.
Brew tea in the remaining water in the usual way, give him a brew.
In the hot syrup, pour the strained tea and finished the remainder slightly warmed vodka, stir.
Remember, the drink became very strong.
Recipe for grog with cinnamon and mint
Ingredients:
0.75 liters rum
20 g of mint syrup
1 tbsp. l. sugar
pinch ground cinnamon
1 clove bud
pinch of ground black pepper
2 cups water
Preparation:
All ingredients (except rum) mixed, and boil at low heat.
Strain and add the rum.
Recipe for honey-apple grog
Ingredients:
1 liter of apple juice or cider,
0.25 cup honey
2 tbsp. l. butter
1 stick cinnamon
0.25 tsp. grated nutmeg,
250 ml light rum.
Preparation:
In a saucepan combine all ingredients except rum. Boil over medium heat 5-7 minutes.
Remove from heat, add the rum and pour transparent cups.
3. Punch
For a long time India was a colony of England, probably, so punch assumed the British drink, but this is the birthplace of punch it is India.
Even the name "punch" comes from the ancient Indian "Punch", which means "five" - the number of traditional elements: wine, rum, fruit juice, sugar or honey and spices (cinnamon, cloves, tea).
Technology of preparation of punch is simple and resembles the preparation is already familiar to us mulled wine and grog.
In an enamel or ceramic ware is heated wine to 70 degrees, adding to it sugar, honey and spices. Some citrus cut into small pieces, squeeze the juice from the rest.
The mixture is heated vessel, which will be supplied to drink - this can be done by pouring boiling water into it.
In the hot vessel poured rum, strained juice, put the pieces of fruit and add hot strained wines. Served, of course, hot.
Recipe for punch with lemon and orange
Ingredients:
0.5 liter rum
1 liter of water
250 g sugar
0.75 liters of dry white wine
2 oranges
2 lemon
Preparation:
Slice the lemons and oranges, squeeze juice from them.
To juice add dry white wine, sugar and mix well. Writing a mixture brew for about 1 hour.
Then the mixture heated, add hot water and rum.
Ready punch mix and hot pour into glasses.
Recipe cherry punch
Ingredients:
0,5 l rum
300 ml cherry liqueur
300 ml brandy
1 tbsp. teaspoon grated ginger
100 ml sugar syrup
juice of 6 lemons
grated nutmeg,
0,7 L hot water
Preparation:
In a heated porcelain cup, pour the lemon juice, sugar syrup, add the grated ginger. Stir well, add rum, cognac, brandy, hot water and heat.
Pour into small porcelain cups and sprinkle with grated nutmeg.
4. Sbiten
Originally Russian warming and drives a cold drink was sbiten. Preparing it quickly and easily, did not contain alcohol and had to taste both adults and children.
There are "adult" version of the drink - mead, which contains alcohol.
Simple sbiten
Ingredients:
500 g honey
700 g of white liquor
5-10 g of spices (hops, mint, dried linden blossom, cinnamon, cloves)
5 liters of water
Preparation:
Boil water and add all ingredients, boil 30 minutes.
Drink hot, like tea.
Sbiten with spices
Ingredients:
300 g honey
300 g sugar
2 liters of water
15 g cloves, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, bay leaf
For the punch:
3 tbsp. tablespoons sugar
50 g of water
Preparation:
Honey mixed with water and boil 30 minutes.
Then add spices and boil for another 5-7 minutes.
Sbiten filter through gauze and embellishing burnt sugar.
5. Tea
Most simple and affordable warming beverage is tea. But it is not easy - though he was hot and fragrant, warm not only the body but the soul.
Especially recommended for herbal tea or pryanovkusovymi additives. Expanse fantasy here is limited by the lack of components. A total care - fresh brewed sweet tea and add to it - on demand - honey, lemon, cranberry, ginger, raspberry, fresh and dried fruits, spices - and a cold will flee from you.
And you can make quite exotic, but no less useful and tasty option.
Tea "Tibet" with ginger and milk
Ingredients:
0,5 l skim milk
0,5 l of water
10 pieces of cloves and cardamom
1 tbsp. teaspoon ginger
0.5 teaspoons of ground nutmeg
2 tsp green tea
1 tsp black tea
Preparation:
Pour hot water in an enamel pot and set it on fire. Add cloves, cardamom and green tea.
After boiling, add milk, and then - black tea and fresh chopped ginger.
When the mixture begins to boil, add nutmeg and allow the mixture pokipet 3-4 minutes on low heat.
After this off, give a little to stand up and filter the resulting tea in a ceramic pot.
6. Hot chocolate
Refined and all your favorite drink is hot chocolate. But not everyone knows that it has healing properties, helps to get rid of colds and children, and adults.
The classic recipe for hot chocolate
Ingredients:
400 ml milk
40 g bitter or dark chocolate
2 teasp. sugar
vanilla - on the tip of a knife
2 tbsp. l. whipped cream
Preparation:
Pot rinse with cold water, pour in the milk and set it on fire.
In milk, add sugar and vanilla. Stir milk, bring to a boil and turn off the fire. Chocolate break small pieces and stir to melt in hot milk.
