Cocktails with brandy

Brandy - a strong alcoholic beverage obtained by distillation of fermented (rabble), juice of fruits or berries with subsequent exposure. Brandy is produced from grapes, apples, apricots, cherries, plums, pears and other fruits and aged in oak barrels for at least three years.

The most important varieties of this drink is produced from grape brandy, apple brandy Calvados, Kirsch cherry brandy, pear brandy, William.

Cognac is the most famous of the known varieties of brandy. It is produced in the grape, and often has a term exposure of more than 50 years.

Although brandies are produced not only in France, officially, all drinks are kind called grape brandy. Vintage brandy with a long exposure does not use in the preparation of mixed drinks, and use in special glasses snifter in pure form.

In a mixture with other components used with ordinary cognacs aged for 3-5 years.

Successfully combining with most liquors, syrups, juices and other fillers, brandy as a basis for a cocktail provides rich opportunities for experimentation and provides scope for imagination.

Cocktails on the basis of vodka

Vodka made from rye, barley, potatoes, wheat, waste from sugar production (molasses) and many other products. This strong alcoholic drink has no period of aging, and its taste the greatest influence the degree of purification of its constituent water and ethyl alcohol.

Many varieties of vodka are produced on the basis of special softened (corrected) of water, which took an additional treatment with activated charcoal, which greatly improves the taste of the final product.
Former USSR vodka is made from drinking alcohol of the highest purification ("Moscow", "Ukrainian gorilka"), alcohol "Extra" ("Wheat", "The embassy") and alcohol "Lux" ("Golden Ring", "Belaya Rus" ).

When preparing cocktails and mixed drinks should be used only high-quality vodka, because otherwise the taste of the drink may fall.

Drink of yogurt and melon

Ingredients : (for 2 - 4 persons): 
Purified without melon seeds -1 / 2 kg
1 tbsp. l. yogurt
2 tbsp. l. cream 2 tbsp. l. cream

Preparation:
Mix all ingredients in a blender until a homogeneous mixture. Add chipped ice and pour into glasses. Garnish with mint leaves. In the portions that are intended for adults, it is desirable to add the melon schnapps. Instead of melon, you can use bananas, pineapples, mangoes, strawberries, peaches or apricots. Pre fruit desirable to grind and get a lot to pass through a sieve to the liquid did not get an extra pulp.

Malaby with figs and lemongrass

Ingredients :  (for 6 persons): 
6 fruits figs
1 / 4 l cream (one package)
1 / 4 liters of cold milk
80 g white sugar (1 / 4 cup.)
40 g kornflora
2 cardamom pods
10 washed and dried leaves of lemongrass ("mint-Louise") - they can replace 5 mint leaves
1 tsp. lemon peel of one lemon green average
2 tbsp. l. rosewater

Preparation:
In a large bowl, mix sugar, cardamom, and half of cooked milk and cream. Upload kornflor and whip whisk. After kornflor completely dissolved, pour the mixture into the tall pot and keep on medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. When the mixture starts to get thick and filling the remaining ingredients and continue stirring until the consistency of yogurt.
Filing:
Cut the fruits of figs in half. With the help of a teaspoon to remove the core, expand the glasses on the number of servings and compacted. Add rind and green flesh of figs, and then pour Malabo. Refrigerate for 3 hours, sprinkle with crushed nuts and fresh lemongrass. Serve in glasses.
Warning: Malabo not be digested. Kornflor reaches the desired condition immediately after boiling. Final solidification occurs during cooling.

Malaby - is considered a traditional Mediterranean cooking, someone says that this Jewish dishes, some Lebanese. In any case, it is a mousse, served with sauces or fruit.

Drink of tamarind

Ingredients (for 5 persons) 
glass of fresh tamarind (Indian figs)
water, sugar to taste

Preparation:

Pour into pan 2 liters of water, add tamarind, put on fire and bring to a boil.
Then drain and cool.
Hand or with a squeeze of the tamarind juice, diluted in 5 cups of cold water and sweetened.
Serve with ice cubes. You can add the rosewater.

Home made condensed milk

Highly recommend tasting, from the reduced number of ingredients produced a half liter of condensed milk. This recipe was found somewhere in the internet already and I can not remember where. But it has taken root in our family.

1. Potrebuetsya homemade milk (and you can store, but homemade is much fatter with tastier) - 250ml, half cup milk, half cup of sugar, too.

2. In milk asleep milk powder, stir to avoid lumps.

3. Add the sugar and put on a water bath.

4. Periodically stir, will be seen that the mass nachanaet get thick gradually.

5. Take it one hour.

6. Undulated set to cool and remove a sample

Beautiful and very useful drink

The ancient Ayurvedic treatises have left us with many useful and simple recipes. This recipe yogic tea. It does not contain any black or green tea or coffee, but it has a refreshing and stimulating action. There are examples where the use of this tea to relieve people of Coffeemania.

With spices, its member, this tea has and not just challenging, unlike the majority of funds, tonic, antibacterial and ant parasitic properties. A beneficial effect on blood vessels, improves digestion.

Interestingly, the drink has a warming effect, if you are cold and a slight cooling, if you "burn".

Ingredients:

1. Ginger powder, but you can and fresh root.

2. Cinnamon.

3. Cardamom.

4. Sugar (preferably brown)

Preparation:

Boil 2 cups water, add 1 ch.lozhku ginger (or the same amount of chopped root), 1 ch.lozhku cinnamon, a pinch of cardamom. Boil for 1-2 minutes, 10 minutes insist. Add sugar to taste like a cup of tea.

Instructions:

It is better to drink tea in the morning, thanks to a tonic and invigorating effect. To drink it is better not more than once a day. It is best to start with two or three cups a week.

Action:

Cinnamon has a refreshing and stimulating. Normalizes blood sugar levels. It positively affects the operation of the entire digestive system, in particular, on the stomach, facilitating the allocation of gastric juice, arousing the appetite. In medical practice, cinnamon is used as antiseptic.

Ginger improves digestion, so that for breakfast this drink is very favorable, kills germs (prevention GRIP) and parasites, good effect on the skin. It is a rejuvenating agent.

Cardamom has a sedative, tonic, expectorant, antispasmodic, analgesic, hemostatic, enzymatic, anti-fungal activity. Tion strengthens the immune system. Normalizes digestion. Detoxes. Stimulates sexual activity. Pronounced tonic. As such, it is useful for physical activities.

The combination of these components, in addition to the above svoytsv also improves the heart muscle and is very useful in diseases of the cardiovascular system.

Sugar (preferably brown) in this case acts as a sweetener. The fact that drinks containing sugar spices better. Sweet is particularly useful in the morning (10 hours), and especially women. The fact is that, thanks to its sweet taste at that time was a normalization of sex hormones (both female and male), and dofomina. In addition, the sweet taste stimulates the production of serotonin (the hormone of happiness). And agree to sip a good mood in the morning - a charge for the entire day.

You can replace sugar on more useful things - maple syrup or stevia extract. Honey in hot better not to add because it loses its useful properties.