Grog - a recipe, which is remembered with the onset of cold weather or on the eve of the New Year and Christmas holidays. Without such warming alcoholic beverages, a winter picnic or a celebration of the outdoors can not be avoided.
How to cook a grog?
Prepare grog, the composition of which can be classic or multi-component, original and refined, can be easily at home. The correct proportions of recipes and the available advice of experienced cooks will help you cope with the idea without unpleasant surprises, allowing you to get a great drink in all respects.
- In the original grog - a recipe, suggesting the preparation of a drink from rum and water with the addition of sugar. Over time, the technology has undergone significant changes. At a minimum, instead of water, strong black tea was added, supplemented with lemon or lemon juice.
- Enrich the taste of the drink all kinds of additives: cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, badon, peas of black or fragrant pepper. Spices are thrown into the water along with sugar and boiled for a few minutes before the addition of rum.
- Rum is injected into the base of the drink with a thin trickle, stirring, but not allowing the mixture to boil again.
- You can sweeten the drink not only with sugar, but also with honey, adding the product to taste before serving.
- Glasses with hot drink are supplemented with slices of lemon, orange, cinnamon stick.
How to drink grog?
It is important not only to properly prepare a classic or spicy grog, but still properly serve it and drink it.
- A hot drink is poured over glasses with a thick bottom and walls or special mugs that hold heat well.
- A portioning container with warming alcohol is supplemented with a tube, with which and sip small portions of drink.
- Hot Grog can be drunk directly from the mug in small sips, very carefully, so as not to get burned.
- Do not abuse the drink to avoid the negative consequences associated with this: the amount of grog throat should not exceed 250 ml.
Grog - the classic recipe
Classic alcoholic grog, the recipe of which will be presented further, is prepared without spices on the basis of boiled water. The flavor characteristics of an alcoholic beverage are enriched by taking strong black tea as a liquid base. It is also not forbidden to add spices when boiling water, after boiling the base for a couple of minutes. Rum for the recipe is suitable Jamaican or Baccardi.
Ingredients:
- rum - 200 ml;
- purified water - 400 ml;
- lemons - 2 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 4 tsp.
Preparation
- Boil water with the addition of sugar until all the sweet crystals are dissolved.
- Squeeze the juice from lemons, add to the sweet water.
- With a thin trickle, rum is mixed in a hot mixture, heated for a couple of minutes, not allowing to boil, and removed from the fire.
- Pour the resulting classic grog into glasses and immediately serve.
Honey grog - recipe
Honey grog thanks to a natural sweetener is not only more useful than the classical version, but also acquires additional flavor notes that will be especially appreciated by fans of bee products. When brewing tea in the teapot, you can put a star badyon, a couple of buds of a carnation and a stick of fragrant cinnamon.
Ingredients:
- rum - 100 ml;
- purified water - 250 ml;
- black tea - 2 tsp.
- lemon - 2 mugs;
- honey - 4 tsp;
- spices (optional) - to taste.
Preparation
- Rinse the brewer for warming with boiling water.
- They fall asleep tea, throw, if desired, spices, pour boiling water, cover with a lid and wrap for 10 minutes.
- In 2 glasses pour equal portions of rum, add a slice of lemon and pour all the fragrant tea.
- Sweeten the drink with honey and immediately serve.
Apple grog - recipe
Grog, a simple recipe of which will be presented later, will be even more flavorful and aromatic due to the use of apple juice as a liquid base. It is preferable to take your own fresh or, if this is not possible, a purchased analogue from a trusted manufacturer.
Ingredients:
- rum - 250 ml;
- apple juice - 400 ml;
- 1 cinnamon stick;
- Ground nutmeg - 0,5 tsp.
- honey - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
- Bring up the apple juice to a boil.
- Throw nutmeg, cinnamon, rinse the mixture for 5-7 minutes, reducing the fire to a minimum.
- Add honey, and then rum, mix thoroughly and remove from heat.
- Serve the apple grog immediately, pouring a drink on the glasses, decorating with an apple slice and a cinnamon stick.
Ginger grog - recipe
A prepared grog made of rum in the home, the recipe of which presupposes the addition of a ginger root, will be pleased with an extra piquant ostrinka and even more qualitative warming properties. The additive is cut after cleaning with mugs or rubbed to enhance the effect on a shallow grater. In the latter case, the beverage must be filtered before serving.
Ingredients:
- rum - 100 ml;
- purified water - 400 ml;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- ginger root - 100 g;
- 1 cinnamon stick;
- cloves - 2 pcs .;
- ground cardamom - 1 pinch;
- granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- black tea - 1 teaspoon;
- honey - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Preparation
- Boil water with sugar and ginger, adding juice to half a lemon.
- Throw tea, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom, warm up a couple of minutes, filter.
- Stir honey and rum into the hot base.
- They pour out the ginger grog on the glasses, add lemon slices and serve immediately.
Cherry grog - recipe
Grog - a recipe that can be performed with the addition of cherries and liquor. It is preferable to use in this case berries with bones, which will enhance the fragrance of the ready-made drink. It is advisable to prepare a berry tea in advance, giving him the opportunity to brew well, then heat and use to create a drink.
Ingredients:
- rum - 150 ml;
- purified water - 250 ml;
- cherry - 200 g;
- cherry liqueur - 50 ml;
- a stick of cinnamon - 0,5 pieces;
- cloves - 2 pcs .;
- pepper - 1 pinch;
- honey - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Preparation
- Stretch the berries with topless, pour boiling water, add tea, warm up a couple of minutes.
- Pepper, cinnamon, cloves are pawned, the container is removed from the fire, wrapped, allowed to stand for 30-50 minutes.
- Filter the infusion, squeeze, warm it to a boil.
- Stir honey, liquor and rum, pour the cherry grog over the glasses and immediately serve.
Coffee grog
The cooked grog at home, the recipe of which is represented by the following, will be accepted with enthusiasm by coffee lovers and not only. Natural-cooked aromatic espresso in combination with strong rum, delicate creams, spices and fresh notes of citrus can not leave anyone indifferent.
Ingredients:
- rum - 200 ml;
- cream 30% - 200 ml;
- butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- espresso - 400 ml;
- orange peel - 1,5 tsp.
- brown sugar - 1/3 cup;
- Ground cinnamon - 0,5 tsp.
- cloves ground - 2 pinch;
- nutmeg - 1 pinch.
Preparation
- Whip the cream with butter, adding ground spices.
- Brew strong coffee, add zest, then pour in rum.
- Pour the drink into glasses, pour over whipped spicy cream, sprinkle with ground cinnamon and immediately serve.
Grog from wine at home - recipe
If the presence of rum was not available, you can prepare the grog using red semisweet wine as the alcohol base. An important condition, without observing which the result can be unpredictable - is the naturalness and high quality of the base drink. The usual sugar can be replaced with brown, and if desired, change the composition of spices.
Ingredients:
- wine - 700 ml;
- granulated sugar - 3 teaspoons;
- cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
- ginger root - 50 g;
- badonia and cardamom - 2 pcs .;
- cloves - 1 pc .;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs .;
- nutmeg - 2 pinch.
Preparation
- Cut the ginger root and lemon into circles.
- Lay the ingredients in a pan with wine, throw all the spices, spices and sugar.
- Heat the mixture to a temperature of 80 degrees, remove from the plate, allow to brew in a wrapped form for 15 minutes, filter.
- A grog of wine is a recipe that requires immediate filing in a hot form.
Grog of vodka
Prepare a grog at home can be on vodka. However, the original recipe, invented by William Pokhlebkin, is recommended to be performed in emergency cases, when it is necessary to warm up after a severe hypothermia or quickly restore strength. The drink manages to be truly masculine, you need to drink it a little, in small sips.
Ingredients:
- vodka - 0,5 l;
- water - 0,5 l;
- sugar - 0.5 cup;
- black tea - 25 g.
Preparation
- Combine half the glass of vodka, water and sugar, boil for 5 minutes.
- In the remaining water, tea is brewed, combined with syrup and warmed-up remaining vodka.
- Pour the mixture into glasses and serve hot.
Grog with cognac - recipe
Worthy to taste is a prepared classic drink, if you replace the rum with quality brandy. White sugar can be replaced with brown sugar or sweetened with a spoon of honey, instead of lemon add an orange. In addition, it is allowed to use water or black coffee as a liquid base.
Ingredients:
- cognac - 120 ml;
- lemon juice - 80-100 ml;
- hot tea - 120 ml;
- sugar - 2 teaspoons;
- cinnamon - 2 sticks;
- cloves - 4 pcs.
Preparation
- Brew fresh black tea, add lemon juice, sugar, spices, warm up to a boil.
- Stir in the drink brandy, poured into glasses.
- Complement the grog with cognac slices of lemon, cinnamon sticks and immediately served.
Nonalcoholic grog - recipe
Non-alcoholic grog with proper preparation will cheer and add strength no less than alcoholic versions. A similar drink is a find for raising the tone for a cold. Its use will accelerate recovery, strengthen immunity and cheer up. You can give such a drink to both adults and children.
Ingredients:
- water - 1 l;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- black tea - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- sweet pepper - 4 pcs .;
- cinnamon - 2 tsp.
- cloves - 4 pcs.
Preparation
- Black tea is poured into a heated brewer half a portion of boiling water, allowed to steep for 7-10 minutes, filter.
- Pour the tea into the remaining boiling water, add all the spices, boil from the boiling point 3-4 minutes.
- Pour in the juice of half a lemon, add the peel with the zest, allow to stand for a minute.
- Filter the drink, sweeten with honey and immediately serve.