How to make drinks: recipes and cooking secrets

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Summer heat makes you wonder how to make drinks at home. How many recipes do you know? What can you cook from natural products and then, chilled in the refrigerator, enjoy an unusual, or maybe familiar fresh drink from childhood?

How many refreshing homemade drinks do we know?

First, let's remember what a homemade drink is. Most often, the famous Russian kvass comes to mind. Then I remember iced tea and lemonade made from real lemons. There is also ordinary ice water, which is useful to combat thirst. It turns out that this is not all refreshing drinks that we can prepare right in our kitchen.

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It's easy to learn how to make drinks at home with a variety of ingredients. The main goal is to find out as many different recipes for coolants in the summer heat as possible. Check your strength for what drinks you can make on your own, thereby replenishing your body and the bodies of our beloved household with trace elements necessary in a hot season andFluid reserves are easy. Where to start? Let's get acquainted with what drinks you can make yourself.

Kvass is the head of everything

Let's start with the most famous - kvass. Perhaps you have forgotten its real recipe and prefer a store-bought carbonated product. Or maybe they didn’t imagine that it’s quite possible to cook delicious kvass yourself. Before answering the question of how to make a drink, you need to make sure that there are some ingredients that make up kvass:

• half a loaf of bread, of course, to make the kvass more "picky" and beautiful, you need rye bread;
• half pack of dry yeast;
• three liters of boiled water;
• one hundred and twenty-five grams of sugar;
• raisins (handful).

Cooking method

Detailed description of how to make a homemade drink, in case you are the first time making it.

The first step to making a kvass drink is to prepare the bread. Roast the rye loaf slices in the oven. This is done without the use of oil. Simply sprinkle prepared bread on a baking sheet and place in the oven until it is browned. Some even tolerate a slight burning of bread slices. It is believed that this technique will make the drink even more interesting.

When the crusts cool down, proceed to filling the container. To do this, take a jar of three liters. If there were no jars of this size in your household, do nottrouble. An enamel pan will do just fine. We pour crusts of bread on the bottom of the dish and, pouring boiling water over them, wait until the water temperature drops to 38 ° C. This is necessary so that the yeast does not "cook" in too hot water.

When the liquid cools to a temperature slightly hotter than fresh milk, we introduce yeast and half the sugar norm into the future kvass. It is better to pre-dissolve these ingredients in a glass of warm water. We cover the jar with a drink with a lid and leave it in a warm place for two days. It is not recommended to put it in the sun.

After two days, you need to strain the resulting kvass, then add the remaining sugar and a handful of washed raisins to it. We pour the kvass into plastic bottles (make sure that the raisins are in each container) and send them to the refrigerator to cool. Now you know how to make the drink that is so famous in our country.

Homemade Lemonade

Kvass, of course, is good, but you need to cook it for more than one day. And what to do if the thirst has overcome, and there was no kvass ready for use in the refrigerator? Then prepare delicious and he althy homemade lemonade. Before you make a drink from lemons, you will need the following set of products:

• two liters of boiled water;
• two lemons;
• four to six sprigs of mint (if there is no mint, it's okay);
• sugar - 6-8 tablespoons;
• ice - as much as you want.

Cooking lemonade

Rinse lemons well and fresh mint sprigs. Then cut the lemons into very thincircles, and tear mint greens with your hands. Small leaves can be left, at the same time they will serve as a decor for the drink.

In a clean glass jar (3 liters) place prepared mint and lemons. Pour all the sugar provided in the recipe into the jar, pour the resulting mixture with hot boiled water. First, pour in a liter of water and dissolve the sugar in the drink in a circular motion. Then pour out the rest of the water and stir.

Uncovered, leave homemade lemonade on the table to infuse, and lemons with mint transfer their taste and vitamins to the water. After forty minutes, the drink is ready. You can simply cool it in the refrigerator, but it will be more beautiful and fresh if you pour ice into glasses and then pour lemonade.

Natural tarragon without dyes

For the drink you need a herb, thanks to which the tarragon got its second name - "tarragon". And here is a list of a few more ingredients that make up homemade tarragon:

• tarragon (aka tarragon) - fifty grams of fresh herbs;
• lemon - one piece;
• sugar - one hundred and twenty grams;
• water - seven hundred milliliters.

How will we cook

Wash the tarragon and cut it finely. Rinse the lemon and collect the juice and zest from it (the upper yellow skin). Place lemon juice and chopped tarragon greens in a blender bowl. Grind the composition to a mushy state.

Pour sugar into a saucepan and, filling it with water, dissolve. Make syrup from water and sugar. As soon as the syrup boils,put the gruel in it and continue to cook for another two minutes. Remove the finished broth from the stove and leave to brew for eight hours (it is convenient to make a drink at night).

After the specified time, strain the tarragon to remove particles of grass and lemon. If desired, the resulting tarragon can be slightly diluted with cold boiled water. Place the bottle of concentrate in the refrigerator. He's ready. You can pour ice into glasses and start tasting.

Iced tea

And a little more about what kind of drink to make at home is not difficult. For example, tea. Many variations of the wonderful cold summer tea have already been invented by inventive housewives.

The refreshing drink "Sea Breeze" based on green tea with the addition of lime and fragrant green apple cannot leave you indifferent.

And here is the list of ingredients:

• three bags of green tea;
• bunch of fresh mint;
• one to three tablespoons of sugar, the sweetness level of the drink can be adjusted by adding less or more sugar;
• one green apple - medium;
• half a lime, you can replace the lime with lemon, but the taste and aroma will then become a little less saturated;
• boiling water - one and a half liters.

Cooking cold Sea Breeze

1. Pour green tea bags with very hot water, but not boiling water. It is better if the boiled kettle stands for three minutes, then the temperature will be the most suitable.
2. Bye teabrewed, proceed to prepare the rest of the ingredients. Cut the mint (large). We will cut the apple into cubes or as you like - it does not matter.
3. Remove the bags from the brewed tea, squeezing all the tea leaves well into the dishes. Dissolve sugar in hot tea.
4. Lime is also cut, but in thin circles, so that the fruit gives all the aroma and taste to the refreshing tea.
5. Throw mint, slices or lime slices into a jar with prepared sweet tea and top it all with apple cubes.
6. Cover the resulting drink with a lid, let it cool completely at room temperature. Then we place the dishes with the drink in the refrigerator for an hour. Serve "Sea Breeze" tea with ice.

Iced tea "Homemade"

You can make a drink at home without even having lime and mint or any other ingredients on hand. An excellent thirst-quenching iced tea is obtained according to the recipe below.

The composition of the ingredients is quite simple:

• two liters of boiling water;
• four bags of black tea, if you take tea with berry or fruit aromas, the drink will turn out to be more interesting;
• one teaspoon of citric acid;
• sugar to taste.

If it is difficult to calculate the amount of sugar for a drink, start with three tablespoons per two-liter jar. Then adjust your sugar intake to your personal taste preferences.

Refreshing tea technology

We will brew tea bags with boiling water, as we usually brew tea. Readypour tea into a two-liter glass jar. In a separate bowl, dissolve sugar in hot water and citric acid. Pour the mixture to the tea leaves (after removing the bags themselves). Pour hot water into the jar almost to the neck. Let the tea stand uncovered at room temperature until it cools completely. Then place the jar of tea in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Serve "Homemade" iced tea.

So, making your own refreshing drinks at home is easy.