'Tis The Season To Be Jolly
Organise a girl’s only night and get tipsy from this list of Christmas drinks, mix your own cocktails, make your own mulled wine and toast to a very merry Christmas.
Snowball
- 2 oz Advocaat
- Top up Lemonade
- 1/2 oz Fresh Lime juice
Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker / stirrer and pour into an unusually shaped glass. Add Crushed Ice and decorations to create a great speciality drink from an easy to make recipe
After dinner mint
- ¾ oz Southern Comfort
- ½ oz Vodka
½ oz Crème de Menthe
(Fill to Top) Hot
Shake vigorously and serve
Eggnog
- 1 cup Cognac
- 1 cup Bourbon
½ tsp Salt
1 cup Sugar
12 Eggs
3 pints Heavy Cream
1 (sliced) Nutme
Directions:
Beat yolks until light in color. Slowly add bourbon, cognac, while beating at slow speed. Chill 3 hrs. Add salt to whites, beat to peaks. Whip s cream until stiff. Fold whipped cream into yolk mixture, then fold in the beaten egg whites.
Chill one hour. Serve with nutmeg sprinkled on top. For thinner mixture add 1 or 2 cups of milk. Serve in a punch bowl or another big bowl.
Make your own mulled wine
Ingredients:
- 2 Bottles of Red wine (a rough dark red is best)
- Country wines with plenty of tannin do well. Bilberry, damson, blackberry, black plum and blackcurrant. Why the rough wines do better than the good ones when mulling wines I'll never know but its a fortunate fact, and its the destiny for my elderberry which never quite made the grade.
- Four small oranges
- 1 Large lemon
- Orange rind
- Brown Sugar (or 2 table spoons of Honey)
- 12 Cloves
- 2 sticks of Cinnamon (Each 3 inches long)
(Aniseed & Fennel optional)
Insert 4 cloves into each small orange
Grate the peal from the fourth orange and squeeze the juice into a cup
Grate the peel from the lemon and squeeze the juice into the cup of orange juice.
Add the grated orange & lemon peel and the three small oranges to into a pan
Add the Cinnamon sticks. (and optionally other spices such as Aniseed & Fennel)
Pour the bottles of wine into a pan and warm to about 60C (140F) (DO NOT BOIL).
If possible warm the gasses to be used
Add the orange & lemon juice
Add sugar or honey to taste, stiring while adding
Make your own hot apple cider with spiced rum
-1 gallon of apple cider
- 10 cinnamon sticks
- 1 teaspoon of ground allspice
- Spiced Rum
- 1½ teaspoons of ground clove
- 1 grated lemon rind
- Pour the apple cider into a large saucepan, and add the cinnamon, ground lemon, clove and allspice. - - Bring the rum to a boil for about 5 minutes.
- After boiling, reduce the heat and let sit for 15 minutes. Add the rum. (more rum=better)
- Grab a metal strainer and serve only after straining the cider.
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