Autumn is the time of year when you most want warmth. Even in winter, when frost is rampant, there is less desire to wrap oneself in a warm blanket and drink something warming than in autumn. A piercing wind, constant slush and regular rains provoke spleen attacks, reduce immunity and whisper in your ear: "Drink some autumn drink." Tasty and fragrant, it is able to cheer up, give a feeling of warmth, make you relax and dream. Modern cooking offers many recipes for various cocktails and mixes. We will consider only the most delicious, healthy and best options.
The best cocktails for the fall
Any autumn drink should consist of bright ingredients, aromatic herbs and spices and ... alcohol. After walking around the park and freezing a little, you can drink a cocktail called "Autumn pleasure". It consists of 60 milliliters of whiskey, 180 milliliters of apple cider, a slice of apple and cinnamon. All components must be placed in a shaker with ice, shake it and strain the contents into a glass of “Rocks”. Add a little ice and a stick of cinnamon to the finished drink. Sprinkle a slice of apple with ground cinnamon and sugar and decorate it with a glass.
Strong cocktail "Autumn Garden" is also a great tool to help keep you warm after a walk. To prepare it, you should have the following components:
- A quarter mug of cognac and as much calvados.
- Two tablespoons of any peach and the same amount of orange liquor, but better “Cointreau”.
- 4.5 tbsp. l lime juice.
- Two droplets of angostura.
- Lemon or lime for decoration.
- Ice.
Put ice in the shaker and mix the first six components listed. Shake the dishes must be at least 20 times. After that, the contents of the shaker are filtered into two glasses, decorated with existing citrus and used in the company of a loved one.
Autumn tastes are cranberries and pumpkins. And they are perfectly combined in a light cocktail "Exquisite Princess". For the drink you will need 45 milliliters of vanilla vodka, five cranberry berries, a small amount of pumpkin puree or a pinch of dried pumpkin, 15 milliliters of lemon juice. You will also have to prepare 20 milliliters of sugar syrup and one egg white.
In a container knead pumpkin, berries, juice and syrup. After that, add all the remaining ingredients and beat them in a shaker without ice. Then they put some ice and shake it again. The finished mix is filtered into a martini glass and decorated with cranberries.
Hot drinks
It’s best to use a hot autumn drink when it’s chilly. You must admit that it’s so nice to wrap yourself in a soft blanket and tumble down in front of the TV with a cup of fragrant potion ... So, a great drink is sbiten. It is made from honey and spices. Honey is mixed with ordinary water and the composition is boiled for half an hour. Then add spices and continue to boil the mixture for another seven minutes. The finished sbiten is filtered through cheesecloth and consumed in hot or warm form.
Excellent hot drink is chocolate. Hot chocolate is both tasty and healthy, in short, the very thing is to quickly warm up and get back to normal. Prepare goodies from a bar of dark or dark chocolate, milk and sugar. If desired, it is allowed to add any spice or cinnamon. Here you can use imagination and season the drink with anything.
Warm Drinks
Warm autumn drinks - this is the best way to prevent colds. Having walked in bad weather along the street, the most important thing is not to get sick after that. Arriving home and treating yourself to a warming drink, you will definitely stay healthy. One of these compounds can be considered spiced latte tea. You will need to prepare:
- Two tablespoons of black tea.
- 2.5 tablespoons of milk.
- Two tablespoons of granulated sugar.
- ¼ teaspoon of cloves and ginger.
- Two pinches of cardamom.
- A small pinch of nutmeg.
Now consider the process of making such a treat. Brew tea and leave it for a while to insist. Then it is poured into a pan, milk with spices is added and the contents are brought to a boil, after which they are removed from the stove. Now you just need to filter seasonings - and you can enjoy a delicious drink.
Coffee is warmer
Autumn coffee drinks are also popular, which not only warm, but also invigorate. So, the favorite drink of many gourmets is the Italian affogato, which is both a dessert and coffee. As ingredients, you will need a couple of balls of vanilla ice cream, a quarter cup of freshly made coffee or hot espresso and chocolate chips. Also in the house you need to have a little sea salt, half a tablespoon of Grand Marnier liquor (but this component is added exclusively by request).
Ice cream is put in a glass and coffee is poured on top. Then sprinkle everything with chocolate chips, add a pinch of sea salt and optionally liquor. Here is the drink and ready. It is incredibly tasty and tonic.
Beneficial Drink
Used autumn compounds, in addition to being warm, are simply obliged to benefit the body. What useful autumn drinks are, everyone knows, and many know the recipes for their preparation. But not everyone knows that such a drink is among the most healthy drinks of the fall.
So, in the slushy period, ginger tea will bring great benefits to the body, which speeds up metabolism, promotes weight loss and improves digestion.
Fruit drink from apples and rose hips is generally a storehouse of vitamins. Mix improves immunity and protects blood vessels from many dangerous ailments. Morse prevents vitamin deficiency and saturates the body with invaluable vitamin C.
Cocoa is considered a nutritious drink, so nutritionists advise you to enjoy it only in the morning. This product contains components that promote the production of endorphins in the body. They help to overcome autumn gloom and spleen.
Mulled wine is an alcohol-free drug. The classic non-alcoholic mulled wine is made with pomegranate juice. But you can add apple or citrus juice to it. In any case, the drink will be enriched with vitamins.
Restaurateurs offers
Restaurateurs know how it is important for visitors to their establishments to warm themselves quickly from the street, and therefore offer to try various autumn drinks. The restaurants often cook hot punches. For example, with burning Chinese cinnamon and sea buckthorn based on cherry calvados with the addition of orange fresh and sea buckthorn liqueur. Did not try? In vain! Punch with smoked whiskey produced on the island of Islay, cardamom, garden apples, cinnamon and blackcurrant liquor is also popular.
Some establishments prepare mulled wine for guests according to the original recipe. It includes orange zest, apple, Maraschino liqueur, juice from cherries, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom.
Raspberry drink, included in the autumn menu of many institutions, consists of lemon and orange slices, lime leaves and raspberries, grated with ginger and sugar.
Apple and Lemon Drink
The most popular autumn drink for people who care about their health is the apple-lemon mix. It consists of one hundred grams of lemon, three hundred grams of apples, 130 grams of sugar and four glasses of water. It takes only a quarter of an hour to cook it.
During this time you will have to wash the fruit. Grate the apple, squeeze the juice from the resulting slurry and cool it. Squeeze should be poured with water and put lemon zest there. For about five minutes, boil the composition, after which it must be filtered. The resulting broth must be brought to a boil and cooled. Squeezed lemon juice in a juicer into the resulting drink.
Special cider
Such an autumn drink, like hot cider with calvados, will give extraordinary sensations, because it has a memorable taste. Take eight slices of crystallized ginger, six cups of apple juice or cider, ¾ cup of calvados, three sticks of cinnamon and 30 whole cloves.
In a bowl, mix ginger, cider, cloves and cinnamon. Bring it all to a boil. After this, you need to reduce the fire, cover the container and boil the potion for half an hour. Ready cider is poured into mugs and seasoned with spices. In each serving of the drink, two tablespoons of calvados are additionally added.
In the end
Autumn drinks, the recipes of which we have presented in our article, are excellent means to help overcome the cold and tune in to positive. You can use them not only in the autumn, but also in the winter, they are especially good during the Christmas holidays. Such a drink will give a festive atmosphere special comfort, coziness and make it even more homely.