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Winter Drinks
Is it truth that sweets can be seasonal, like kinds of sport or cloth? Yes, they can. In winter it’s time for us to pass to all that dishes, we refused to eat in summer: thick, hot, nourishing and hearty.
What we need to eat in winter
All fruit with vitamin C – it strengthens immunity and prevent from colds, give forces to us, tones up and cheers you up, like tea or coffee. Plenty of vitamin A is vital, as it controls our good adaptation to long gloaming and short light day, moreover, it makes our skin elastic, able to resist cold and freeze. So, we generously add citrus juices, rich in vitamin C, or black-currant syrup in all desserts.
Sea-buckthorn juice contains a lot of carotenes (provitamin A). Yolks contain natural vitamin A.
Immune system needs a lot of protein – it produces antibodies of proteins, protecting us from flu and bugs. Milk, cream, sour cream are excellent sources of protein.
All hot dishes help nutritive materials to be completely assimilated and in cold weather protect us from excess weight – as completely processed food almost is not saved in our organism as hypodermic fat, but burn during calorification. That’s why we like hot dessert drinks in winter so much. Kitchen herbs, improving blood circulation, have the same warming effect – cinnamon, cloves, ginger, - and strong alcohol – rum, brandy, whiskey and cognac, - that are generously added in fillings for pies, cakes, puddings, spice-cakes and cookies.
Warming sweet drinks
Do you always boil tea with water? Try to cook a “mountain Scotch tea” on milk! Pour a table-spoon of black tea with boiling milk (400 ml), leave covered for 7 minutes, add 2 table-spoons of flower honey or brown sugar to your taste. Children like this drink.
A "mountain tea for a lady" is very interesting. Whisk 2 egg yolks and 100 g of sugar in white foam and mix with strained hot tea, boiled on milk. A drink will be very nutritious – obviously, in Scotland men liked chubby ladies with voluptuous shapes.
Note, - black tea, rich in tanning agents, helps organism to assimilate milk – including people who stand milk badly.
You can drink hot juices, instead of usual tea, - orange or black-current ones, adding sugar to them and serving up 35% of whipped cream without sugar. A hot grape juice with a pinch on cinnamon, couple of cloves and a tea-spoon of orange peel is very tasty.
Forget about calories!
Of course, we won’t do without hot chocolate in winter – aromatic and piquant. Melt 70% brown chocolate (150g) broken to pieces on a water bath with milk (100 ml), then add a peel of one orange, half of tea-spoon of cinnamon and again 200 ml of hot milk. Mix everything carefully and boil to the boiling point. Remove from cooker at once. Whip 35% cream (200 ml) with a table-spoon of powdered sugar and fixing agent (1 packet) in think wavy foam. Pour hot chocolate in 2 big cups, cover with whipped cream and powder with cocoa powder or cinnamon. You can add liqueurs – egg, amaretto, creamy, coffee, and also cognac or brandy – in hot chocolate, instead of peel and cinnamon.
Note! Cranberry, cowberry, banana and coconut liquors and vodka don’t go with hot chocolate.
[Author]
Yana Mikheeva