Beverages

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Post your Beverages here.

[Ervserver]

INGREDIENTS
1 cup heavy cream
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 2/3 cups Irish whiskey
1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract


DIRECTIONS
In a blender, combine heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, Irish whiskey, instant coffee, chocolate syrup, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Blend on high for 20 to 30 seconds. Store in a tightly sealed container in the refrigerator. Shake well before serving.

[Ervserver]

Christmas Creamy Egg nog

INGREDIENTS
6 egg yolks *
1 (5 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pint of whipping cream (whipped)
6 egg whites *
1 fluid ounce rum
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

DIRECTIONS
In a large mixing bowl, beat egg yolks until they are thickened and light. Gradually stir in condensed milk, sugar, vanilla and fold in the whipped cream. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then add them to the milk mixture. Stir rum into the mixture (to taste). Garnish with nutmeg.

Store in frig, mix well before serving

* if you buy eggs that are *PASTURIZED* (it will be marked on the carton), they have been treated for bacteria, and are ok to eat raw.

[Guest]

Carrot Aid

This blend has ginger,whichhelps stimulate circulation and ais digestion.
And beta-carotene, so it is a great way to start your day.

FOR EACH SERVE:

3 Carrots. Roughly chopped.
1 Green Apple.
1cm of Ginger.

Mehod:

Place the ingrediants into a blender and blend for 20 to 30 seconds.
Pour into clean storage container and refrigate till required.

Mehod:

Place the ingrediants into a blender and blend for 20 to 30 seconds.
Pour into clean storage container and refrigate till required.

Serve ith Ice if required.

[Guest]

Citrus and Berry Blend

This one is high in Vitamine C, with added benefit of B€eta-carotene from Pink Grape-fruit.

FOR EACH SERVE:

1 PINK GRAPEFRUIT: Peel and remove the pith, Chop roughly.
100 Grams of Fresh Strawberries.
PINEAPPLE: 1 Cup of chopped Pineapple.

Mehod:

Place the ingrediants into a blender and blend for 20 to 30 seconds.
Pour into clean storage container and refrigate till required.

Can be made a day in advance.
Make enough for 20 serves.

[Guest]

Fruit Salad Blend

Grapes are rich in anti-oxidants and contain Vitamin B6, Vitaim C, Folate and Protein.

FOR EACH SERVE:

Quarter of a Rock Melon: Peeled and roughly chopped.
1 Orange: Peeled and quartered.
1 Cup of seedless Grapes.
Pupl of 1 Passion Fruit.

Mehod:

Place the ingrediants into a blender and blend for 20 to 30 seconds.
Pour into clean storage container and refrigate till required.

Can be made a day in advance.
Make enough for 20 serves.

[Guest]

Green Cocktail

Watercressis one 0f the best sources of Vitamin A.
You can use Alfalfa if you prefer.

FOR EACH SERVE:

2 Green Apples. Roughly chopped.
1 Nasi Pear.
Juice with a few sprigs of Watercress.
Finish with a squeeze of lemon juice.

Place the ingrediants into a blender and blend for 20 to 30 seconds.
Pour into clean storage container and refrigate till required.

Can be made a day in advance.
Make enough for 20 serves.

Garnish with a slice of lemon if desired.

[Guest]

Minted Pineapple.

This is high in Vitamin C and contains Bromelain, an emzyme that helps with the digestion of protein.

FOR EACH SERVE:

1 Small Lebanese Cucumber, with skin removed and roughly chopped.
Half of a fresh Pineapple, skinned and roughly chopped.
Few sprigs of fresh Mint.

Mehod:

Place the ingrediants into a blender and blend for 20 to 30 seconds.
Pour into clean storage container and refrigate till required.
Serve with Ice.

Can be made a day in advance.
Make enough for 20 serves.

[xmaslilly]

1 shot cruzan vanilla rum
cranberry splash sierra mist
ice

very smooth if you like vanilla this is it
drink as mixed drink
or strain thru shaker as a shot

[lightitup]

Sun Rise

INGREDIENTShttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/lightitup/recipe%20pictures/119201.jpg
Crushed ice
4 tablespoons pomegranate or grenadine syrup
4 cups orange juice
White rum to taste
DIRECTIONS
Add ice to four glasses. Pour one ounce of white rum and 1 tablespoon pomegranate juice or grenadine syrup over ice in each glass. Slowly add 1 cup orange juice. Stir if desired. looks best if unstirred and let guest stir with a cute christmassy stirrer.

[xmaslilly]

Orange Dreamsicle Cocktail

1 glass filled with ice
add about 3 oz Cruzan vanilla rum < this stuff is so good
add orange soda to fill glass

yum yum yum taste just like an orange dreamsicle popsicle

[Auntie Mistletoe]

:eek: Don't throw your cherries at the screen, I've been a little busy, but I'm posting several recipes today so you can plan ahead for your next celebration.

:-) You'll see that some just shout "Merry Christmas" while others shout "that hits the spot anytime of the year".

Irish Eyes cocktail Look into each other’s eyes and say "Tá tú go h-álainn" (You're beautiful).

1 oz Irish whiskey
1/4 oz crème de menthe, green
2 oz cream
maraschino cherry for garnish

Pour the ingredients into a shaker with ice cubes.
Shake well.
Strain into an
Garnish with the maraschino cherry.

Traditional Irish Coffee

2 tbsp. heavy cream
1 1/2 oz Irish Whisky (whiskey if you are American).
1 tsp. Sugar syrup or superfine sugar coffee

Mixing instructions:
Add sugar (preferably brown) to strong hot black coffee and stir until sugar is fully dissolved.
Add Irish whiskey. Leave enough space in the glass to add the cream.
Carefully "float" the cream on to the coffee by using the back of a spoon.
Do not stir.
Sip the coffee through the cool cream to truly enjoy this classic.
Whipped cream is a delicious substitute for the cream.

Wee Colleen (non-alcoholic cocktail) Mocktail
3 dashes grenadine
3 oz. Orange juice
2 oz. Schweppes (or personal favourite) Club Soda
1 oz. Lemon juice
Mixing instructions: Shake juices and grenadine with ice. Pour into a highball glass and add Club Soda. Add orange and lemon slices to decorate.


Don’t forget to make an Irish Toast:

"May you have all the happiness
and luck that life can hold—
And at the end of all your rainbows
may you find a pot of gold."

:x Okay so how many folks were wondering why I posted St. Pat's beverages before Christmas ones?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/AuntieMistletoe/ShamrockShower.gif I'm Irish, that's why.


Christmas Snow Punch Recipe

1 can (46 ounces) Hi-C Hula Punch, thoroughly chilled
2 pints vanilla ice cream, softened
2 cups Sprite, chilled

In punch bowl, combine Hi-C Hula Punch, Sprite and ice cream. Stir
until well blended and chill. Makes about 32 servings.

Spicy Cranberry Punch
1/2 cup red cinnamon candies
4 C. water
8 C. cranberry juice cocktail, chilled
6 oz. can frozen limeade concentrate
6 oz. can frozen orange juice concentrate
In small pan, melt candies in water; chill. At serving time, combine candy liquid and fruit juices in punch bowl. Stir to dissolve. Makes 18, 5-oz. cups.

Wassail Bowl

Whole cloves
1 large orange
2 quarts apple juice or cider
3 T. lemon juice
4 cinnamon sticks
Heat oven to 350. Insert cloves into orange. Place in shallow baking pan and bake at 350 for 30 mins. Pierce orange in several places with tines for a fork.

In large saucepan, combine apple and lemon juice, cinnamon sticks and baked orange. Cover; simmer over low heat 30 mins. Remove sticks and orange. Pour into heatproof punch bowl. If desired, float the orange in the bowl. Serve [safely] hot. Makes 16, 4 oz. servings.


:-) Okay now the Wassailing song is stuck in my head.

Boxing Day Special Coffee

1 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream
½ oz. Irish Mist
¼ cup cold black coffee
Top with whipped cream

(Okee-Dokee, this special coffee can be enjoyed on other days of the year too.)

Evergreen Punch
2 pkgs. unsweetened lemon-lime Koolaid
2 cups sugar
2 qts. water
1, 46-oz. can pineapple juice
1 quart gingerale
Dissolve sugar and koolaid. Add pineapple juice and chill. Add gingerale at serving time. Good too if you freeze it for a while until it's slushy. Then call it Santa Slush. Serves 36.

For Halloween try this recipe . . . your little goblins will love it.

Swamp Punch

2 c Boiling water
1 lg Pkg lime-flavor gelatin
2 c Cold orange juice
1 l Cold seltzer
Ice cubes
1 pt Orange sherbet; slightly softened
1 Orange; thinly sliced
1 Lime; thinly sliced

In a large bowl, stir boiling water into gelatin until completely dissolved; stir in the orange juice. Leave ‘till lukewarm.
Just before serving, pour into punch bowl. Add cold seltzer, ice cubes, sherbet by the scoopfull, and the orange and lime.


:) If you try any of them, let me know if you enjoyed them.

[luvinh]

our samoan friends taught us to make watermelon shake all it is watermelon chunks with a dash of milk in the blender mix well serve it is so refreshing on a hot day.
also this is a very old old recipe
HOREHOUND BEER
to a quart of water add:-
1 tablespoon of Hops
1 tablespoon of Quillah Bark
1 tablespoon of Horehound Herbs
1 tablespoon of Whole Ginger
Put in a saucepan and bring to boil and boil half an hour
Fill a kerosene tin 3/4 full of water add to it 6 cups sugar and 1 teaspoonful Tartaric Acid
Strain the ingredients into the tin.
Burn a cup sugar black and add to tin,then pour in a bottle of Horehound.
Let stand until next day and bottle.
Ready for use in 6 days
word of warning do not sit bottles in warm area like near hot water system otherwise you will have caps flying off everywhere.
have not used this recipe for such a long time it is so hard to get horehound herbs here.

[lightitup]

So now hubby wants to make beer and set it by the hot water heater to see if the caps will really fly off the bottles. Geesh will he ever grow up.

[luvinh]

are they all not child at heart,the best part was when you be fast asleep and the next thing you hear caps flying off like someone banging the hammer on the wall we use to laugh ourselves silly when this happened. :)

[Ervserver]

well....did they fly off? :?

[Ervserver]

wow you have to be careful

[lightitup]

Cherry lime cream smoothies.
1lb of cherrys, pitted and cut in half.
1 small lime cut in quarters put in one quarter with no rind,
1 cup of vanilla ice cream
then fill with ice and I blend on liquefy till smoothie form. Taste just like sonics creamy cherry slush. Yummy.

[DoubleA]

1 shot vanilla rum
1 shot white chocolate liqueur (recommended: Godiva)
1 shot peppermint schnapps
Candy cane, garnish

Add all liquid ingredients to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into martini glass. Garnish with candy cane.

[Ervserver]

mmmm I want one now

[Ervserver]

1 oz Smirnoff vodka
1 oz cream of coconut
1 oz Half-and-half
some white chocolate

Chill all ingredients in advance


Dip the glass rim in melted white chocolate

Measure & pour ingredients into prepared cocktail glass, or place in cocktail shaker with ice, shake & strain into cocktail glass.


Top with shaved white chocolate

[number4son]

Since I'm not fond of vodka or coconut, it looks like I'm having a fancy chocolate milk.

[Ervserver]

my parents made these for parties, they would let me have just a sip

[number4son]

my parents made these for parties, they would let me have just a sip and so began the journey...

[Ervserver]

The real journey began when they gave me my first sip of eggnog

[number4son]

I can't remember my first sip of eggnog, but I know it made an impact on me.

[Ervserver]

made you want to join the navy

[Ervserver]

2 liters non-alcoholic grape juice
2 cups water
1 cup sugar
2 dozen whole cloves
4 cinnamon sticks
The peel of 1 orange and 1 lemon
1 crushed nutmeg seed
2-1/2 cups of hot lemon/lime juice


Heat the water and add the sugar, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and peel.
Boil for 5 minutes and leave to simmer for 5 more.
Strain this syrup into a large pot and add the citrus juice, heat until it is gently bubbling.
Add the 2 liters of grape juice and keep the mixture on a low heat, serve with a slice of lemon.

[number4son]

Dollar General alert! They have peppermint and gingerbread coffee creamer for sale for 67¢ a jar. I bought one of each.

[Rennabelle]

Party Punch


INGREDIENTS:
3 (3 ounce) packages fruit flavored gelatin mix
4 cups white sugar
13 cups boiling water
2 (46 fluid ounce) cans pineapple juice
1 (16 ounce) bottle lemon juice
concentrate or 1 -2 cans frozen concentrated lemon aid
2 (2 liter) bottles lemon lime soda or ginger ale,
chilled

DIRECTIONS:
1. In a large bowl, combine gelatin and sugar. Stir in boiling water until mixture is dissolved. Stir in pineapple juice and lemon juice concentrate. Divide into 2 containers, and freeze until solid.
2. To serve, place gelatin mixture in punch bowl, and chop into pieces. Pour in ginger ale.

This is beautiful when you float fruit in such as strawberries, kiwi, bananas, etc. I also make ice cubes out of some of the punch so that if you put ice in the punch it doesnt get that watered down taste.

:c15:

[Rennabelle]

Holiday Punch

2-3 Bananas
6 oz. can fozen lemonade
1/2 can unsweetened crushed pineapple
12 oz. can orange juice
2 cups sugar
3 cups water
4 1/2 quarts lemon-lime pop (7 up.)

In food processor, puree bananas with lemonade concentrate. Combine remaining ingredients except for lemon lime pop in a large bowl; mix with wire whip. Pour concentrate into a couple gallon freezer bags and freeze.
To serve, thaw concentrate until slushy. Pour into punch bowl and add pop. ( I use more pop than called for.)
(I like to make some of the punch up and freeze in small decorative molds then freeze and use for ice.)