Punch is a hot drink with an alcoholic component, containing fruit or fruit juice, spices and some other ingredients. The tradition to cook punch was adopted by the British from Hindus in the beginning of the XVII century, then spread in Europe, in Germany it is a traditional Christmas drink.
By now, many recipes for punch are known, they are prepared with various fruits.
Tell you how to make a cranberry punch . Cranberries are a very useful berry, containing many useful substances and having a pleasant sour taste.
Cranberry punch with spices and rum
Ingredients:
- Freshly squeezed cranberry juice - 250 ml;
- boiling water - 300 ml;
- light rum - 100-150 ml;
- Freshly squeezed lemon juice - 30 ml;
- sugar - 3-5 tbsp. spoons;
- some natural vanilla;
- berries of cranberries and lemon slices for decoration.
Preparation
We will not heat and cook cranberry juice , otherwise we will lose vitamins. We dissolve the sugar in boiling water. Let's drink rum and season with vanilla. Add cranberry and lemon juice. We will pour into bowls for punch, add a few berries of cranberries to each, and attach a lemon slice on the side of the cup. Cooled punch can be served in glasses with a tube.
To prepare an orange-cranberry punch, we keep all the proportions of the previous recipe (see above), just replace the lemon juice with orange and make out a cup or glass of orange slice. Well, if your bar has Angostura or Bitter, then add 1 teaspoon of any of these drinks to the punch.
To prepare grape-cranberry punch, use the proportions and sequence of the actions of the first recipe (see above), instead of rum we use grape brandy or inexpensive cognac, also add 30 ml of muscat grape wine (well, or other interesting grape wine, better than strong).
Recipe for cranberry punch with tea
Ingredients:
- fresh cranberry juice - 200 ml;
- tea black strong Indian or Ceylon (brewed) - 200 ml;
- red wine (vermouth) - 300 ml;
- brandy - 100 ml;
- cloves - 3-5 inflorescences;
- badonia - 1 star;
- sugar - 2-4 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Brew tea with cloves and badges. Strain it and dissolve the sugar in the tea. Add wine, brandy and cranberry juice. Pour into cups. You can decorate cups with lobes of lemon and orange.
If someone tells you that there are soft drinks punch - do not believe that such drinks are called otherwise (tea, cocktail, compote, etc., but not a punch).