Drink at home for the winter. Warming soft drinks for warmth and health in winter. Warming Winter Drinks - Recipes "For Adults" - Sbitney with Beer and Wine

The sultry summer is over, the warm autumn is also coming to an end and the cold is inexorably approaching. And what could be better than a glass of hot drink when you want to warm up. Moreover, warming drinks can be not only tasty, but also healthy. This means that it will help protect against colds in the season of increased morbidity.

What to drink in winter

Despite the fact that Russia belongs to countries with moderate climatic conditions, in recent years and autumn starts early, and the cold comes for a long time. And winters are becoming more severe from year to year. So which flavored warming drink should you choose?

It turns out that not only tea or coffee can be hot, but also grog, mulled wine or sbiten. With the help of such a drink, you can not only warm up, but also significantly improve your mood in bad weather, as well as strengthen your health. Taking into account the moderation of consumption of such a drink.

Gourmets can opt for herbal teas, milk-based drinks, chocolate or honey. Moreover, the combination of ingredients can be matched to your own taste. Due to this, the taste of the drink itself can be new every time.

Warming drinks

Tea remains the main drink of the cold season. And regardless of which of the teas you choose (green, black, herbal Kalmyk or other), everyone will have valuable useful properties... The easiest way to make tea as healthy as possible is to add lemon, honey, or ginger to it.

Talking about healthy drinks, you can not stop at milk. Remember, adults are not shown fat milk. But milk with a low percentage of fat will be a source of calcium, vitamins, and protein. It is useful to combine milk with turmeric (a natural "antibiotic"), which will help strengthen the body without harming the intestinal microflora.

No wonder that cocoa was called "the drink of the gods" before. This drink is a source of antioxidants, heart-healthy and mood-enhancing substances, thanks to its ability to produce the hormone of joy - serotonin. Moreover, the taste of cocoa made from natural ingredients is similar to hot chocolate.

In the cold season, one should not forget about berry broths, as well as fruit drinks, which will help to strengthen the immune system with taste.

It is important to remember that alcohol-based warming drinks can only be consumed in an amount that is safe for health - 250 ml (glass).

How to prepare warming drinks

Lemon ginger tea... This drink should be prepared in a thermos. You need to take a ginger root (about 2 cm) and chop finely, put it in a thermos. The lemon should also be cut into larger pieces, for example 8 pieces. Sugar should not be added immediately, in general it is best to replace it with honey and add it to the finished tea right before drinking.

Putting ginger and lemon in a thermos, pour boiling water over everything and leave overnight. Already in the morning of the next day, you can drink lemon-ginger tea in small portions. Such a drink will not only perfectly warm, but also invigorate, activate the metabolic process and digestion, help get rid of toxins, and will also become simply an irreplaceable helper for those who have colds.

Those unfamiliar with ginger should be careful to add less the first time, as this root has a very pungent taste.

Orange cinnamon drink... It is best to use cinnamon for preparing such a drink not in powder, but with chopsticks. An orange (1 pc.), Cut into slices, together with cinnamon (1-2 sticks) should be boiled with boiling water right in a thermos and left for at least 8 hours. This drink will also be an excellent tonic and tonic during the cold season.

Mulled wine... Mulled wine is considered a low-alcohol wine drink, which is often enriched with orange or apple slices, liqueur, cognac or rum. However, all additional ingredients should not overpower the classic taste and aroma of mulled wine.

To prepare mulled wine, you will need a bottle of red (preferably semi-sweet) wine. You also need to take a few pieces of cloves (no more than seven), an eighth of nutmeg, allspice (3-5 peas), a cinnamon stick and half of one orange (cut into slices). Put everything except wine in a saucepan, pour cold water(0.5 cups) and boil for no more than 2-3 minutes. Then, after turning off the heat, insist under the lid (about 15 minutes). After the allotted time, put the saucepan on the fire again, pour the wine into it and bring it to almost boiling point.

Hot drunk chocolate... This drink will appeal to all those with a sweet tooth, warming and lifting the mood. To prepare chocolate for a large group of friends (about 12 servings), you will need a bottle of vodka. You also need to take a two-hundred-gram pack of butter and melt it in a water bath, mix it there with 150 grams of granulated sugar and 200 grams of dark chocolate. The mixture should be completely homogeneous. Next, you should carefully pour in a bottle of vodka, stirring thoroughly. The mixture should be heated until small bubbles appear on the surface of the drink, but it should not boil. You need to drink such chocolate hot, pouring it into ceramic cups.

English grog... English grog is based on black tea. Such a drink will help to quickly warm up, even with hypothermia, relieve the first symptoms of a cold, help the heart and activate breathing. You should eat grog in small sips, slowly.

To make an English warming drink, boil a glass in a saucepan pure water, combine with the same amount of vodka, add a glass of sugar and cook for about five minutes. Prepare strong tea in advance (50 grams of tea leaves per liter of water), which should be well infused. Combine the infused tea with hot syrup and mix thoroughly. Enjoy hot drinks in moderation.

Kalmyk tea... For those who are driving or simply do not like drinks with alcohol, Kalmyk tea is suitable. This drink perfectly tones up and allows you to concentrate, at the same time it relieves muscle tension.

To prepare Kalmyk tea, you need to brew five tablespoons of tea leaves with two liters of boiling water, combine with a liter of milk and 50 grams butter... After thoroughly mixing the drink, it should be supplemented with a pinch of black pepper and two teaspoons of salt. Regular consumption of Kalmyk tea will strengthen the immune system and add strength.

Sbiten... This old Russian drink will help in maintaining health, especially in the cold season. However, to prepare it, you need a certain skill.

Having combined 150 grams of honey and a glass of water, you need to boil the mixture, removing the foam. After that, you need to dissolve 100 grams of sugar in a glass of hot water and pour into honey. The resulting mixture should be cooked over low heat until a mixture of uniform consistency is obtained. In another container, you need to prepare a decoction of spices. In two liters of water, bring to a boil a mixture of mint and St. John's wort with ginger root, ground cinnamon, black peppercorns and two cloves. At the end of cooking, combine the honey-sugar syrup and the decoction of spices, and stir well.

Milk punch... Such a drink will be useful in case of a decrease in the body's defenses, after suffering stress or a hard day at work. Milk punch is best consumed in the evening, before bed.

To make milk punch, you need a glass of milk, 15 ml of brandy, half a teaspoon of cinnamon and a spoonful of honey. Punch is best consumed hot during the cold season.

Menshikov's tea... This drink will help to keep warm after a long stay in the cold, for example, after fishing or hunting (even mushroom). Also, this tea will help at the first sign of a cold and add strength.

Of course, the involvement of Prince Menshikov in the creation of this recipe has not been confirmed by anyone, but this does not implore his warming properties.

To prepare tea, you will need 3 glasses of strongly brewed black tea, a glass of honey and one glass of vodka. All ingredients should be brought to a boil and consumed immediately in glass glasses.

Warm up deliciously and with health benefits, while not forgetting to consume alcohol-based beverages in moderation.

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Healthy winter drinks

“Drink to keep warm” - under this slogan it will be much easier and more pleasant to survive the last month of winter. And this is not about alcohol, although in moderation and in the right combinations, it can be beneficial. Today we are discussing the best winter warming drinks.

Indian miracle

The first item on our list of hot winter drinks is not going to be a big revelation. It has long been known that tea warms the best. And if the soul craves for the sun and exoticism, you can make Indian tea. Ginger and cardamom give it a unique flavor. To begin with, heat a liter of milk over low heat and add 3 tsp in the process. steamed tea leaves and honey to taste. As soon as the milk boils, add spices to it: a piece of grated ginger, ½ tsp. cardamom, if desired, a few cloves, a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg. Next, boil the mixture over the lowest heat for 3-5 minutes. When the milk becomes creamy, remove the pan from the stove and let the tea brew for another 5 minutes. Now it remains to strain the drink and pour into cups.

Greetings from childhood

Milk will not interfere with the body in any season, and even more so in winter, because such healthy winter drinks are obtained from it. The good old one that the mothers prepared for us is definitely one of them. In addition, it can be improved with hot ingredients. Separate the yolks from the proteins (5 pcs.) And beat them with 150 g of sugar until a white foam forms. Then pour 100 ml of rum, 100 ml of brandy, 2 tbsp. Into the yolks in a thin stream. l. milk and 1 glass of cream. Beat the whites separately into a strong foam and combine them with the yolks. We put the resulting mixture on low heat. Add a second glass of cream, 100 g of powdered sugar to it and stir until the mass finally thickens. Pour the finished mogul into glasses and sprinkle with grated nutmeg. If you are preparing a drink for children, substitute cocoa powder for alcohol or fruit juice... Such a treat will not only warm you well, but also cure a sore throat.

Solar pear

When asked what drinks are healthy in winter, many will not hesitate to answer: mulled wine. And they will be right. This wonderful spicy cocktail is energizing and uplifting. As you know, many recipes include red wine or something stronger. If you prefer alcohol-free winter drinks, you can experiment with other ingredients. For example, make pear mulled wine. To do this, we need 500 ml of pear juice, in which we put the zest of one lemon, a cinnamon stick, 5-6 cloves, an star anise star and heat in a large saucepan over low heat. Sweets can add some powdered sugar. While the juice is heating, peel 6-8 pears, cut them into thin slices and transfer to a saucepan. The mulled wine will be boiled for 30-40 minutes, after which the pear pieces must be caught. Strain the drink and pour into glasses.

Fruit charm

Another tasty invention of smart Indians is punch. In translation, the name means "five", because classic recipe contains exactly that amount of ingredients: rum, tea, water, lemon juice and sugar (or honey). However, the Europeans, who liked this cocktail, began to add red wine, brandy, various fruits and berries to it. But since we started talking about winter soft drinks then our recipe will be appropriate. To make a healthy punch, mix 3 cups of cranberry and orange juice, add a little water and add a spice mixture to taste. It could be ground ginger nutmeg, cinnamon and any other spices of your choice. Bring the resulting mixture to a boil over high heat, reduce it to a minimum and continue cooking for another 5 minutes. Pour the punch into glasses, throw a few cranberries into each and decorate with fresh mint leaves.

Ginger therapy

Hot winter drinks, the recipes for which can be enumerated endlessly, are unlikely to do without invigorating ginger cocktails. This miracle root gushes with beneficial properties. It relieves pain and inflammation in the throat, prevents the growth of pathogenic bacteria, and strengthens the body's immune defenses. And it is also an excellent tool for those who dream of quickly losing extra pounds. To prepare a warming ginger-based drink, we need a thermos. Put on the bottom 20 g of grated ginger, 2-3 slices of lemon, cinnamon to taste. Pour the resulting mixture with 300 ml of boiling water and leave for 5-10 minutes. Then add 2 tsp. honey, stir until completely dissolved and let the drink brew for some time.

What is the use of our winter drinks hit parade? They not only warm the body, but also charge it with mass nutrients keeping in good shape. if you have own recipes to keep warm, be sure to tell other readers about them.

Newby Tea Brewing Tips: Brewing Temperature

For black tea, use boiling water;

For green tea, use 70 - 80ºC water.

Enjoy your tea!

Winter is close, and it's not about Game of Thrones at all. Frosts and cold will soon begin, and with them colds, drowsiness, lethargy, apathy and vitamin deficiency. In order not to focus on your health, but to notice only the positive aspects of the cold season, learn how to prepare special drinks.

Namely non-alcoholic warming drinks, recipes and cooking methods are included. It's so nice to spend an evening in good company after a whole day in the cold with a cup of something warm and cozy! Non-alcoholic and intoxicating, with herbs and spices - there are ideas for any preference. Let's get started?

Non-alcoholic warming drinks: recipes, methods of preparation

Mexican coffee

Let's start with invigorating coffee for lovers of aromatic exoticism. This drink is just for you! Drink it in the morning, and then the hot South American sun will forever settle in your heart.

Ingredients:

Finely grind nine spoons of coffee beans
Litere of water
150 g brown cane sugar
Teaspoon molasses
Cinnamon stick
Five star anise
Heavy-bottomed saucepan or ladle

Preparation:

Combine water with sugar and molasses in a saucepan, add cinnamon and star anise.
Cook until boiling.
Pour coffee into boiling water.
Cover, let it brew for 5-6 minutes.
Strain before serving.

Masala tea

Heading to India to sample local drinks! Masala tea is a visiting card of this country. This revitalizing and spicy drink is sure to slightly raise your temperature and mood.

Ingredients:

Two glasses of water
Half a liter of milk
Two teaspoons of black tea
3 to 4 centimeters peeled ginger root
Spice collection: cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, fennel seeds
Three pieces of allspice
Granulated sugar to taste
Saucepan or saucepan

Preparation:

Combine water with milk, bring to a boil.
Add sand and ginger root, boil for 3-5 minutes.
Pour a combination of spices into the masala, cook for a minute.
Add black tea and cook for another 5-7 minutes.

Hibiscus with ginger

Hibiscus is considered a unique drink, cooling in summer and warming in cold seasons. It all depends on the wishes. Instructions and preparation are the same except for one point: just add ice! Remember the main thing that a cold hibiscus reduces pressure, and a hot one increases it.

Ingredients:

Litere of water
4.5 tablespoons hibiscus (Sudanese rose, hibiscus)
2-3 pcs. carnation
Caramel or honey
Slices of lime, apple or orange
Nutmeg, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger optional

Preparation:

Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
Add all the elements except fruit, cook for 10-15 minutes.
Serve with chunks of fruit.

Sea buckthorn tea

Sea buckthorn is unique and medicinal plant... Perfectly warms, enriches the body with vitamins. This delicious tea is recommended to be tasted at least once in winter.

Ingredients:

A handful of sea buckthorn berries
Art. a spoonful of black leaf tea
Honey, mint, vanilla for flavor

Preparation:

Frozen sea buckthorn must first be defrosted.
Pour boiling water over sea buckthorn berries, black tea.
Add vanilla spice and honey.
Cover the kettle with a towel for 17-20 minutes.
Pour into cups and use warm.

Currant sbiten

Non-alcoholic warming drinks, recipes and cooking methods varied. For example, the traditional Slavic sbiten, which our ancestors used to bask in the freezing cold.

Ingredients:

A tablespoon of currant and raspberry leaves
Half a liter of boiling water
1-2 tablespoons honey

Preparation:

Collect and grind raspberry and currant leaves, pour boiling water over, close the lid and leave for at least half an hour.
Strain the mixture, add honey.
Drink sbiten warm.

Ginger tea

Such a composition will help to warm up and get rid of the first signs of colds and SARS, charging with energy and a decent dose of vitamins.

Ingredients:

0.5-1 l. water
Teaspoon finely chopped ginger
Dining room false green tea
A couple of slices of lemon or lime
Bee honey or refined
Cloves, cinnamon

Preparation:

Put all the elements in a saucepan and cook for 12-15 minutes.
Garnish with citrus when serving.

Classic mulled wine

The article is devoted to non-alcoholic options, but mulled wine is a classic, the main thing is to know when to stop! What a winter without warmed up wine. This drink is considered an essential attribute of both the New Year's table and a romantic evening. But, for true connoisseurs, there is an alternative without alcohol.

Ingredients:

A liter of dry red wine, grape or cherry fruit drinks are suitable for replacement
A quarter glass of water
A tablespoon of sugar
7 carnation flowers
Muscat for the scent.
Turk
Saucepan with thick base

Preparation:

Mix nutmeg with cloves in a turk. Pour in water and gently bring to a boil, then keep the broth on fire for a little more. Forget about it for 8 minutes.
Pour wine into a saucepan, heat up.
Add a decoction of spices to the wine, then add sugar.
Cook, stirring, and taste over medium heat for 11-15 minutes. Never bring to a boil!
Remove from heat, strain, pour into tall circles, garnish with orange slices and cinnamon.

Egg punch

This punch is made on the basis of rum or cognac, so, of course, it is very warming, but at the same time it is also quite intoxicating. So get ready for a dizzying sensation.

Ingredients:

200 g refined
Half citrus crust
3 eggs
Half a liter of water
A tablespoon of wine
Quarter (0.25) liter of cognac

Preparation:

Boil water with sugar for 5-8 minutes, add lemon peel.
Barely cool the resulting syrup and strain.
Beat eggs.
Put beaten eggs in the syrup, heat slightly and beat the mixture until it turns into a foam.
Pour cognac into the foam, beat well again.

Pear smoothie

The pear smoothie is enjoyable, practical and satisfying. Satisfies the feeling of hunger, saturates the body with useful microelements. Perfect supper substitute for weight watchers and dieters. The spices included in the composition will help fight extra pounds by activating metabolism. Oatmeal is prized for helping to improve complexion and normalize digestion.

Ingredients:

Large pear
25-30 g oat flakes
230 ml. milk
130 ml. yoghurt
0.5 tsp grated ginger
Art. a spoonful of honey
Ground cinnamon for flavor

Preparation:

Milk needs to be heated in a small saucepan on the stove or in the microwave.
Fill the oatmeal with warmed milk and cover for 15 minutes.
Whisk the pear, grated ginger root, yogurt, oatmeal with milk, honey in a blender.
Pour the smoothie into the prepared containers and sprinkle with a pinch of cinnamon according to your mood.

Apple cider

Ingredients:

Liter of apple juice
Grapefruit, lemon, pear
Cinnamon sticks (per serving)
Ginger, cloves

Preparation:

Bring the apple juice to a boil.
Fill boiling cider with fruit and spice slices.
Cook for 9-10 minutes, then let it brew for 35-40 minutes.
Pour into cups, adding seasoning sticks.

Warm-filling cocktails are found in all cultures and all peoples. Enjoy the warmth of hot mugs and warm wishes!

Every winter we traditionally fight viruses and colds. In difficult situations, of course, you should immediately consult a doctor. And for the purpose of prevention, and just to keep warm on a gloomy evening, we have prepared a selection of vitamin drinks for you.

Fruit punch, aromatic mulled wine, cranberry tea, sbiten, apple-ginger drink and sea buckthorn-orange juice: more liquid, as they say! Drink and don't get sick!

Photo: K. Vinogradov / BurdaMedia

You will need:

300 g cranberries

1 pear
1 apple
70 g granulated sugar
1 piece of ginger root (approx. 3 cm)
500 ml black tea
4 carnation buds
1 table. spoon of honey
1 cinnamon stick
juice and zest of 1 lemon
200 ml apple juice

Preparation:

Sort the cranberries, wash and pat dry on a paper towel. Wash and dry the pear and apple, cut each fruit in half and remove the core with seeds. Cut the pulp into wedges. Transfer to a small saucepan with the cranberries and add the sugar.
Wash, peel and chop the ginger root. Add to a saucepan, pour over hot tea, add spices, honey and bring to a boil. Pour in apple and lemon juices and warm up.
Pour into tall, thick-walled glasses and serve. Garnish each glass with lemon zest.

You will need:

12 servings

150 g sugar

1.25 l milk
150 ml brandy
300 ml rum
2 eggs
1 orange

Preparation:

Wash eggs and break into a deep bowl. Pour in half the milk and beat with a whisk.
Pour the remaining milk into a saucepan, add sugar and stir until it dissolves. Bring the milk to a boil, but do not boil. Allow to cool slightly and, without stopping stirring, first pour in the milk-egg mixture in one portion, and then gradually - rum and cognac.
Beat the punch and pour into glasses. Garnish with thin orange slices and orange zest.

You will need:

1 orange
1 apple

1 piece of ginger root (2 cm)
juice and zest of 1 lemon
2 star anise
4 carnation buds
1/2 tea tablespoons of ground cinnamon
500 ml dry red wine

Preparation:

Wash the orange and apple and cut into slices. Peel and grate the ginger root.
Put all prepared ingredients in a saucepan, add juice and zest of 1 lemon, anise, cloves, cinnamon and pour over with wine.
Put on fire and heat without boiling. Leave on the fire for 5 minutes, covered with a lid, then pour into glasses and serve.

You will need:

1 bottle of Cahors
1 orange
3 black peppercorns
5 sweet clove buds
1 pinch ground cinnamon
1 tea a spoonful of liquid honey
1 pinch of salt

Preparation:

Wash the orange, dry and cut into thin slices, remove the seeds. Put orange circles in a saucepan, add black peppercorns and cloves.
Pour orange with spices with cahors, add ground cinnamon, salt and stir honey. Put the stewpan on the fire and, with constant stirring, bring the contents to almost a boil (do not boil). Remove the saucepan from heat immediately.
Let the drink brew under the lid for 10 minutes. Then strain through a fine strainer and pour into transparent glasses. Put an orange slice in each, after decorating them with a "crown" of cloves.

Photo: Dmitry Korolko / BurdaMedia

You will need:

1 orange
3 allspice peas
5 pieces. carnation
1 bottle of semi-sweet red wine
1 pinch ground cinnamon
1 table. spoon of honey
50 g raisins
50 g peeled almonds

Preparation:

Wash the orange thoroughly, dry well with a paper towel and cut into thin slices. Remove seeds. Place the orange slices in a small saucepan, add the allspice and clove buds.
Pour over wine, add ground cinnamon and honey. With constant stirring, bring the mixture to an almost boil and immediately remove from heat. Close the pan tightly with a lid and let the mulled wine brew in a warm place for 20-30 minutes.
Sort the raisins, rinse thoroughly and dry well on a paper towel. Then put it together with the almonds in thick-walled transparent glasses. Strain the drink and carefully pour into glasses with almonds and raisins. Decorate as desired and serve immediately.

Photo: K. Vinogradov / BurdaMedia

You will need:

1 table. a spoonful of green tea
4 sprigs of mint

2 carnation buds
4 pink peppercorns
300 g cranberries
100 g granulated sugar

Preparation:

Pour green tea with 3 sprigs of mint, cloves and pink pepper with 500 ml of water at a temperature of 85-90 ° C and wrap.
Mash the cranberries with sugar, pour in 300 ml of water and bring to a boil. Strain.
Mix cranberry broth with infusion of tea, mint and spices. Pour into thick glass glasses, garnish with mint leaves from the remaining sprig and serve immediately.

Photo: Oleg Kulagin / BurdaMedia

You will need:

For 4 persons

100 g cranberries

100 g honey
3 table. tablespoons of sugar
800 ml water
2-3 carnation buds
1/2 tea spoons of cinnamon
8 pcs. cardamom
1 pinch each of mint and oregano
1 bay leaf

Preparation:

Wash the cranberries, dry, then mash with a crush and squeeze the juice through cheesecloth. Pour squeezes with 1.5 liters of water, bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes and strain.
Add cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, as well as dried herbs and bay leaves to the resulting broth. Cook for 10 minutes over low heat.
Strain the broth, add honey, cranberry juice and bring to a boil again. Serve hot. In a slightly cooled sbiten, you can add 50 ml of brandy or vodka (optional).

8. Sbiten with burnt

Photo: Valentina Bilunova / BurdaMedia

You will need:

Serves 4

300 g honey

1.5 cups sugar
4 cinnamon sticks
8 pcs. cardamom
2 teaspoons of cloves
ginger root (4 cm)
bay leaf (1-2 pcs)

Preparation:

Dissolve honey in 1 liter of hot water, bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes. Then add all the spices and simmer for another 5 minutes. Remove from heat and strain.
Heat a dry skillet and add sugar to it. Melt it for 3-5 minutes. Then pour in about 100 ml of water and boil. With the resulting mixture, tint the sbiten, adding it little by little until the desired color is obtained.

Rinse sea buckthorn berries under running water. Let the water drain.
Pour over oranges with boiling water, dry. Remove the skin with a sharp grater.
Pour boiling water over the orange peel and simmer for 20-25 minutes over low heat. Then let the broth brew for 20-30 minutes and strain it.
Transfer the sea buckthorn berries and orange pulp to an enamel bowl and knead with a wooden crush or spoon until the pulp is separated from the skin and seeds.
Place a sieve on a saucepan, line it with gauze in 2 layers. Put the sea buckthorn-orange mass on a sieve. Leave for 15–20 minutes to drain the juice into the saucepan. Bones and skins will remain on the gauze. Then you can additionally squeeze the gauze with your hands so that the remaining juice gets to the bulk.
Add sugar to the orange peel broth. While stirring, bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, then refrigerate.
Pour sea buckthorn and orange juice into the resulting orange syrup, mix.

Be healthy!

In autumn and winter, coming from the cold, you always want something warm, warming, which will not only quench your thirst, but also give a new charge of vivacity and strength. At this time, the body requires a large number of moisture. The right drinks allow not only to saturate the body with water, but also to strengthen the immune system, and prevent colds from penetrating into a person. There are a large number of warming drinks that can improve your well-being and uplift your mood.

Non-alcoholic

Tea is an excellent warming agent. A hot, aromatic drink mixed with spices and herbs allows you to enhance the result and strengthen your health.

You can add spices, dried and fresh fruits, raspberries, ginger, cranberries, lemon, spices, honey to tea.

Chamomile tea

Chamomile tea helps relieve inflammation, and with the addition of linden and honey, it becomes almost ideal for the initial manifestations of a cold.

To prepare it, you need: a glass of boiled water, a teaspoon of dried chamomile and linden flowers. After insisting (20 minutes), a spoonful of honey is added to warm tea. You need to consume such a drink three times a day, a quarter of a glass at a time.

Massala tea

Massala tea has a warming effect. This Indian tea is composed of milk and spices. It has a spicy, delicate creamy taste that warms you up in cold autumn or winter.

Preparation:

In a dry frying pan, 0.5 tablespoons of grated ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, a pinch of cinnamon, and black pepper are fried for 20 minutes.
A saucepan with 250 milliliters of milk is placed on the fire, 100 milliliters of water is added.
A tablespoon of black tea, spices, a spoonful of sugar and a pinch of salt are added to milk with water.
After boiling, the mixture remains to simmer under the lid for 8 minutes.
The finished drink is infused for 10 minutes and poured into portions.

Sbiten

Sbiten is an excellent warming drink that stimulates metabolism. It has antiviral, anti-inflammatory effect. In the adult version, the sbitn may contain alcohol, and the universal option is a non-alcoholic drink.

For sbitnya you need to take:

water,
100 grams of sugar
6 peas of peppercorns,
2 grams of cinnamon
5 pieces of cloves,
5 dried mint leaves
a spoonful of ground ginger,
a teaspoon of lemon balm and the same amount of anise,
180 grams of honey.

In 250 grams of boiling water, honey is laid out. The mixture is boiled for 3 minutes, the foam must be removed. Another glass of boiling water is poured in, sugar is added, stirred.

2 liters of water are poured into a saucepan, spices are added. Everything is brought to a boil. The finished broth is filtered. A mixture of sugar and honey is combined with a decoction of spices.

The resulting mixture is stirred and left to infuse until it cools completely.

In addition to the standard set of ingredients, bay leaves are added to Vladimirsky sbiten.

With ginger

Ginger tea is almost an ideal warming and invigorating drink. In addition, this drink has a pleasant, spicy, slightly pungent taste.

For tea you need to take: 2 centimeters fresh ginger root, a glass of boiling water, a teaspoon of black tea. Everything is mixed and brewed for 5 minutes. For taste, add a slice of lemon.

Hibiscus ginger tea

Ginger tea with hibiscus warms and tones.

One and a half liters of water is taken:

50 grams of ginger root,
30 grams of hibiscus tea,
Apple,
2 cinnamon sticks
honey or sugar.

Grind the ginger and apple. Chopped ingredients and hibiscus are filled with boiling water. After infusion, honey or sugar is added.

If you add a handful of cranberries or currants, then the drink becomes ruby

With ginger and lemon (ginger)

For 1 liter of ginger and lemon warming drink, you need:

a spoonful of white or green tea,
ginger root (4 centimeters),
half a medium lemon
lemon grass and mint to taste.

Step-by-step preparation of ginger:

The peel is removed from half of the lemon and crushed.
The ginger root is peeled and cut into thin strips.
Lemon peel and ginger are poured with water, put on low heat for 12 minutes.
Add sliced lemon, lemon grass, mint.
Infused for 10 minutes, filtered.
Tea is brewed in a teapot and left to infuse for 2 minutes.
After which it is filtered and combined with ginger infusion.

Ready-made ginger is sold in a pharmacy in concentrated form or in sachets. The finished drink should be drunk in small sips, in small portions. Hot drink invigorates and warms. The body receives many vitamins, essential oils and minerals. Metabolism accelerates, colds pass.

With honey, ginger, lemon

The following recipe is quite popular: a piece of ginger root (4 centimeters), 2 tablespoons of honey, lemon juice, a spoonful of cinnamon, a liter of boiling water.

Ginger is peeled and crushed. Cinnamon is added. Everything is mixed, filled with boiling water. The mixture is poured into a thermos and infused for 1 hour. Then it is filtered. Lemon juice is added to the infusion. V warm drink honey is added.

Chocolate Banana Milk

For a liter of milk, 3 bananas, a pinch of cinnamon, 50 grams of chocolate (bitter) are taken.

The bananas are crushed.
Milk is put on fire, chocolate and bananas are added.
After boiling, pour in cinnamon.
The mixture is set aside, cools a little, whipped with a blender.
It is consumed warm.

Hot chocolate

Hot chocolate or cocoa will certainly warm you in the cold!

This drink not only warms cold winter but also a delicious dessert.
It boosts mood and speeds up metabolism. It also saturates very well.

For hot chocolate you need to take:

250 milliliters of milk
dark chocolate bar,
50 milliliters of water.

The chocolate is melted. Milk with water is brought to a boil and melted chocolate is gently introduced into the middle. The resulting drink is brewed for 2 minutes. If desired, you can add vanilla, cinnamon, sugar to it. The finished mixture is whipped and poured into portions. Whipped cream is added on top.

Orange and Cinnamon Warming Drink

For a liter of hot water, you need an orange and cinnamon - 2 sticks.
The orange is cut into slices, water and cinnamon are added. Everything is mixed and infused for 8 hours.

The drink in a warm form saturates the body with minerals, vitamins, gives vigor and good mood.

Warming winter drinks: video

Alcoholic

Mulled wine

Mulled wine - red wine will warm the blood

Mulled wine, this delicious drink with an unusual taste that is great for flu and colds.

For 0.5 liters of red wine, there is the same amount of black tea, 100 grams of sugar, citrus zest, cinnamon, cloves.

Spices zest, tea and sugar are brought to a boil, filtered, wine is poured in, mixed and heated to a hot state.

Classic mulled wine

In the classic version, a bottle of red wine contains 400 grams of water, 100 grams of sugar, 50 grams of cognac, cloves, cinnamon, lemon peel.

Spices, lemon peels, sugar and water are brought to a boil and strained. Table wine is added, mixed, warmed up. Cognac is pouring in.

Fruit mulled wine

For lovers of fruit drinks, you can prepare mulled wine based on fruit.

Apple, orange, tangerine, kiwi are cut into small pieces, 400 grams of sugar, 500 grams of wine, cloves, cinnamon are added. Everything is mixed and infused for 3 hours.

Mulled wine is filtered and heated.

Non-alcoholic mulled wine recipe: video

Grog classic

For a liter of tea, you need to take:

60 grams of sugar
lemon peel
a pinch of cinnamon
a pinch of cloves, black pepper,
a bottle of white wine.

Spices, sugar, zest, tea are combined and boiled. Then they are cooled and filtered. Wine is poured in, warmed up.

This recipe is classic and used most often. But there are other grog recipes as well.

Winter Burning Grog

For a bottle of red wine you will need:

cloves, pepper, cinnamon,
100 grams of sugar
0.2 liters of rum (cognac),
0.5 liters of tea,
lemon.

Mulled wine is made from spices and wine. Mulled wine and rum (cognac) are added to hot lemon tea.
Grog not only warms, but also increases blood circulation, tones up.

Grog with cinnamon and mint

A bottle of rum is taken: 20 grams of sugar, 0.5 liters of water, 20 grams of mint syrup, a pinch of cinnamon, 1 piece of cloves, a pinch of ground hot black pepper.

All ingredients (no rum) are mixed and simmered over low heat. Everything is filtered, rum is added.

Hot drink with rum and spices - grog

Punch

Coffee and chocolate punch

Coffee and chocolate punch warms up perfectly in cold winters.

For its preparation, it is taken:

liter of boiling water,
50 grams of instant coffee,
1 liter of red wine
0.5 liters of brandy,
50 grams of dark chocolate chips,
150 grams of sugar.

Water and wine are combined, coffee, cognac, chocolate chips, sugar are added. Everything is heated and poured into portions.

Punch with lemon and orange

This punch is prepared like this. We take:

a bottle of dry white wine,
litere of water,
250 grams of sugar
0.5 liters of rum,
2 oranges and the same amount of lemons.

Oranges, lemons are cut, juice is squeezed out.
Sugar, wine are added to the juice and it remains to infuse for about an hour.
The mixture is warmed up, rum and water are poured in.
The punch is poured into portions.

For colds

English punch

This drink helps with colds.

For classic English punch, take: a liter of black tea, 0.25 liters of rum, 0.5 liters of brandy, 100 grams of vodka, 0.25 liters of liqueur, 250 grams of sugar, 3 proteins, 3 lemons, an orange.

Preparation:

Sugar and protein are whipped.
The zest is removed from the orange with a grater.
Then it is divided into slices.
Juice is squeezed out of 2 lemons.
One lemon is cut into wedges.
Tea, remaining sugar, orange peel, lemon juice, protein-sugar mixture, slices of oranges, lemons are placed in a saucepan, mixed.
Rum, vodka, cognac, liqueur are added, brought to a boil and poured into portions.

Cherry grog

This drink tones, warms and is an excellent anti-cold remedy.

700 grams of hot water
300 grams of cognac,
300 grams of cherry liqueur,
500 grams of rum,
1 spoon of chopped ginger
juice of 6 lemons,
a pinch of nutmeg
100 grams of sugar syrup.

Syrup, lemon juice, grated ginger are poured into the dishes.
Water, rum, tincture, cognac are added, everything is heated. Poured into portions, sprinkled with nutmeg.

Hot chocolate with rum

Hot chocolate with rum will not only keep you warm, but also ward off colds.

For 0.25 grams of rum, 125 grams of finished cocoa is taken.