Thursday, April 30, 2009

Cranberry Tea

Ingredients:

  • 8 tea bags
  • 4 cups of water
  • 2 cups cranberry juice, unsweetened
  • 2 cups cider
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • 4 cloves
  • 1 orange, sliced

Procedure:

  1. First boil the water, and then pour it onto the tea bags in a saucepan.
  2. Stir and leave for 4 minutes.
  3. Strain into a punch bowl with the rest of the ingredients and stir until the sugar dissolves.
  4. If it's not being drunk straightaway, return to the pan and keep warm over a gentle heat.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Scandinavian Glogg

Ingredients:

  • 1 bottle red wine, full-bodied such as a Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 50 g raisins
  • 50 g almonds (optional)
  • 5 cardamon pods, crushed
  • 5 cloves stuck into an orange
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • Vodka
  • 50 g sugar (or to taste)

Procedure:

  1. Mix the wine, almonds, raisins and spices and leave, covered, at room temperature for at least 24 hours.
  2. Add the vodka and sugar to taste and warm through until the sugar is dissolved. Serve hot in a heat-proof glass or mug with a few raisins sprinkled on top.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Rusty Nail

Ingredients:

  • 1 measure whisky
  • 1 measure Drambuie
  • Orange zest or a lemon twist for garnishing

Procedure:

  1. Add the whisky and Drambuie to an old fashioned glass filled with ice and stir.
  2. Decorate with a zest of orange or a twist of lemon.

Note: Add the Drambuie last to allow the whisky and Drambuie to mix well.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Wallbanger

Ingredients:

  • 2 part vodka
  • 1 part Galliano
  • Fresh orange juice
  • Slice of orange for garnish

Procedure:

  1. Pour the vodka and orange juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice
  2. Shake for approximately 30 seconds.
  3. Strain into a highball glass containing ice.
  4. Pour in the Galliano as a float and finish with a slice of orange and a straw.
  5. Serve

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Bikini Bottom

Ingredients:

  • 1 part Banana Liqueur
  • 2 part Coconut Cream
  • 1 peel twist Lemon
  • 2 part Rum
  • 2 part Strawberry schnapps

Procedure:

  1. Mix all parts with ice and pur into a high ball
  2. Decorate with a lemon peel twist and an umbrella
  3. Serve

Monday, April 13, 2009

Pink Gin

Ingredients:

  • 1 measure gin
  • 2-3 dashes Angostura bitters

Procedure:

Coat the sides of a chilled martini glass with the Angostura bitters
Add chilled gin
serve

Friday, April 3, 2009

Fruit Punch

Ingredients:


  • 1 cn (46-oz) sweetened orange juice
  • 1 cn (46-oz) sweetened pineapple juice
  • 4 c ginger ale

Procedure:

  1. Chill thoroughly
  2. Mix Orange Juice and Pineapple Juice
  3. Add ginger ale