Let the spirits flow
Ingredients
1 bottle red wine
110 ml water
60 ml sugar
1 stick of cinnamon
Anise
3 cloves
1 tbsp. lemon peel
1 tbsp. orange peel
Instructions
Boil the sugar and spices in water, leaving them to soak for half an hour. Then, strain the water and mix with wine. Heat, but don't boil. Float lemon and orange peels on top. Garnish with a cinnamon stick. Serve in an Irish coffee cup.
Irish coffee
Ingredients
40 ml Irish whiskey
1 tsp. brown sugar
170 ml hot coffee
Heavy whipped cream
Instructions
Combine whiskey, sugar and coffee in a mug, and stir until dissolved. Float whipped cream on top. Do not mix.
Hot buttered rum
Ingredients
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. butter
1 jigger of light or dark rum
Four cloves
Instructions
Combine butter and sugar in a pan and heat till butter is melted. Add mixture to a glass of rum and mix. Garnish with cloves and serve.
Hot Toddy
Ingredients
1 tbsp. honey
3/4 glass tea
2 shots brandy
1 slice lemon
Instructions
Brew tea and fill a tall glass 3/4 full. Mix in honey. Mix in brandy shots. Add lemon slice and enjoy.
Christmas punch
Ingredients
2,270 ml water
450 gms sugar
Juice and rinds of
3 lemons
1 bottle rum
1 bottle ruby port
Grated nutmeg
Sliced apple
Sliced orange
Instructions
Boil the water, sugar and lemon rinds in a saucepan. After cooling, strain. Add the rum, port and lemon juice. Transfer into a large, prewarmed punch bowl. Float the fruit on top and sprinkle with nutmeg. Ladle into punch cups.
Ingredients
60 ml Canadian whiskey
Dash of peach schnapps
Orange juice
Cranberry juice
Instructions
Pour the Cranberry juice and peach schnapps into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Fill with equal parts orange juice and cranberry juice. Stir
Roasted toasted almond
Ingredients
30 ml vodka
30 ml coffee liqueur
30 ml Amaretto
Milk or cream
Instructions
Slowly pour the vodka and liqueurs in an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Fill with milk or cream. Shake by placing a mixing tin over the glass and giving it one or two good shakes.
Ingredients
40 ml tequila
30 ml coffee liqueur
Coffee
Whipped cream
Instructions
Pour tequila in a glass. Pour hot coffee and add coffee liqueur and top it up with whipped cream and garnish with coffee beans.
Irish surprise
Ingredients
30 ml Bailey’s Irish Cream
20 ml Cream de Cacao
5 ml Blue Curaco
1 spoon cream
Instructions
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Pour in a glass with ice and serve.
Hot tea grog
Ingredients
½ tablespoon of honey to
taste
30 ml cognac or brandy
30 ml dark rum
1 cup of hot tea
Instructions
Mix all ingredients in a saucepan, heat and pour in a warm mug. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and grated nutmeg.
Hot jamaica
Ingredients
60 ml Jamaican dark rum
80 ml water
1 lime
½ teaspoon sugar syrup
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 tsp. sugar
Instructions
Heat gently in a saucepan, pour unstrained into a heatproof goblet and serve.
B&T
Ingredients
45 ml Blavod Black Vodka
15 ml Gran Reserva
60 ml Earl Grey
Champagne
Instructions
Heat Earl Grey tea and a little bit of ginger juliennes and shake a little. Add Blavod in a mixing glass with some ice. Strain into a Martini glass and add a dash of champagne and pour some Gran Reserva on top.
Negus recipe
Ingredients
60 ml port wine
30 ml claret
30 ml champagne
1 tsp. brandy
60 ml water
½ a lemon
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 teaspoon sugar
Instructions
Heat ingredients (with the lemon thinly sliced into rings, and a heaped teaspoon of sugar). Strain into a heat-proof goblet when hot and serve.
Ingredients
30 ml dry gin
40 ml almond liqueur
Splash of Campari
Splash of sour mix (sugar
syrup and lemon juice)
Several cherries for
garnish
Instructions
Add gin, almond liqueur and Campari to a snifter filled with ice. Top with sour mix. Garnish with cherries.
Sneaky pete
Ingredients
30 ml Kahlua.
30 ml Canadian Club
rye whiskey
110 ml milk
Coffee beans for garnish
Instructions
Pour the Kahlua into a glass with ice cubes. Add the milk and rye whiskey. Stir well and garnish with coffee beans.
