First of all, there are two groups of drinks: non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages. Both of them can be successfully cooked at home. In the summer heat, recipes for summer drinks become especially relevant. At such a time, nutritionists in unison recommend cooking and drinking cold drinks, the recipes of which will help you survive the sultry season with benefits for the body. You can choose the recipe for a refreshing drink to your taste. This is a drink made of oranges, mojito, lemon drink, cold cranberry drink, rosehip drink, basil drink recipe, cherry drinks, sea buckthorn drinks and many others.
At home, you can even prepare a tarragon drink, the recipe of which is quite simple, the main thing is just to buy fresh tarragon. So choose and prepare soft drinks, recipes are usually quite simple. But for a holiday or a feast, you can also cook something unusual and interesting. For example, the sherbet drink, the recipe of which was invented in the East many centuries ago. Lemonade, perhaps, is the most popular cold drink in which mint is usually added. Recipes from mint and lemon are often recommended for children because it makes it possible to prepare delicious and healthy drinks without pasteurization and preservatives.
Now let’s move on to the topic of alcoholic homemade drinks. Recipes for alcoholic beverages are not created in order to quickly prepare alcohol and feel alcoholic intoxication, the main thing here is taste. Interestingly, for some men, even the preparation of such drinks becomes a hobby. Such recipes at home allow you to cook them according to the highest standards, from the most natural ingredients, which is called hand-made. Alcoholic beverages are also very simple (poured alcohol, waited, and drink), and more complex, where the fermentation process is involved. Homemade alcoholic beverages are mainly recipes for tinctures, moonshine, wine, liqueurs and many others. They are drunk independently or used for cocktails. And the recipes of coffee drinks will tell you how to make coffee, milk, cream, spices, alcoholic beverages incomparable in taste and aroma drinks.
One of the most popular drinks among women today is ginger drink. The recipe for a ginger drink may differ slightly, but the basic essence is simple: rub ginger, pour boiling water over it or boil it a little, and you’re done. Why is ginger drink so popular? – you ask. And all because ginger is used for weight loss. Ginger drink recipes may contain honey, lemon, sugar, but in this way they become more caloric. Keep this in mind when you prepare a ginger drink for weight loss. The recipe for a ginger drink will also help you prepare an excellent anti-cold remedy. Therefore, in winter it is very useful to drink ginger drinks, because the recipes of such drinks will help to strengthen health, defeat flu and colds. In addition, it is worth adding that in the cold season it is worth remembering about such a drink as honey, which was used by ancient ancestors in everyday life, recipes of which we also have in abundance.
What else can I season my tea with? Only the forest autumn air with the aromas of ripe foliage and not the hot sun. Then it’s decided, I’m going for a walk in the forest, and it’s not scary that five o’clock will find me in the forest, I took everything I need with me!
There are a lot of mulled wine recipes on the site, but I will venture to offer another one – non-alcoholic. This mulled wine has many advantages. Firstly, it is anti-cold and warming, which is very useful in cold and frosty weather, and secondly, the drink is an aphrodisiac, and this, you will agree, is very important in the light of Valentine’s Day. And, thirdly, even if we exclude the first two points, this drink is simply very tasty and can be drunk even by children.
Not everyone likes tea with viburnum because of its specific smell and bitter taste, but everyone knows about the healing properties. Viburnum tea is useful for boosting immunity and for fighting the autumn cold. There is a saying: not to be a Viburnum is a raspberry. But this is not the case. Viburnum surpasses raspberries in its medicinal properties. Viburnum has diaphoretic, antipyretic properties, it is a good antiseptic. Viburnum berries kill mold, bacteria and colds. If it is not possible to filter or boil water, you can put a bitter bunch of viburnum at the bottom of the vessel and after 2 hours you can drink water without harm to your health. Viburnum berries can be added to regular tea and drunk with honey.
I invite everyone to a cup of warming and simply enveloping warm drink. It tastes a little unusual, with a slight astringency and a subtle aroma of nuts. You can say, for a lover of fleeting bitterness in tea.
This simple but very tasty tea will perfectly warm you on a frosty winter evening, and in a chilled form it will quench your thirst wonderfully on a hot summer day. In other words, the recipe is all-season! Not to mention a storehouse of vitamin C.
Summer heat, so I want delicious coolness! Many people like the Spanish drink Sangria – citrus fruits, wine, iced water, fruit. And why not replace wine and water with kvass? It is very harmonious, with a sweet and sour taste, fresh, slightly tingling. For a picnic, for guests, children and for yourself – Sangria “Kvass” – try it? If you want sangria for adults – replace tea with red dry wine – you will be pleasantly surprised by the taste of the drink!
What can we say about this drink? It performs two important functions – it keeps us in shape and protects us from colds! Especially good in the cool season, in case of frost or dampness… or in the evening, when the hands themselves reach for the refrigerator… In general, help yourself!
Ginger is a wonderful immunomodulator! Ginger syrup is recommended for colds, coughs and indigestion, destroys malignant cells, and the substance that gives a sharp taste to hot pepper can lead to a decrease in the incidence of pancreatic cancer. Add it to tea, take a teaspoon in the morning after a meal, and you will see that energy and health are with you again! Be healthy and don’t get sick!
A combination of medicinal plants such as sage and linden can help in autumn and winter not to get sick. Increases immunity and reduces the risk of acute respiratory infections. In addition, sage and lime tea (one tablespoon of dried plants per liter of boiling water) perfectly helps with various diseases of the respiratory tract, being an excellent expectorant that helps to cleanse the bronchi and lungs of mucus. To increase the effectiveness, it is recommended to add milk and a little honey to this tea. I used to do this until this recipe caught my eye. True, there are no lime trees here, but, I assure you, the warming effect of this is no less. Therefore, I recommend drinking it at night to go to bed after it.