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Cranberry Apple Punch
Heat 3 quarts of water and 2 cups of sugar together in a large pan to boiling. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Cool.
Prepare strong tea by heating cold water to boiling. Place 3 teaspoons of loose tea or 3 tea bags in container. Pour 2 cups of hot boiling water over top and let steep for 3-5 minutes. Stir tea to insure uniform strength. Strain if using loose tea. Cool before adding to punch mixture in punch bowl.
Mix all ingredients well. Chill. Just before serving time, add garnishes of lemon wedges or slices and line and orange slices as well as ice. or add a frozen ice ring.
(note: 4 cups = 1 quart).
Use 1 TABLESPOON of coffee per 1 cup of boiling water.
Start with cold water and a clean pot. Heat water to boiling in a kettle or saucepan.
Preheat coffeepot by rinsing with hot water. Place the coffee cone with a coffee filter in it on top of the coffeepot.
Measure the coffee into the coffee filter in the filter cone. Using 1 tablespoon full of drip-grind or fine-grind coffee for each cup of water you plan to use.
Pour the hot water from the tea kettle into the cone on top of the coffee grounds Let it drip through the filter into the pot. Discard the coffee grounds and filter in the cone once the water has all dripped through. Coffee is ready to serve.
Note: DO NOT pour hot water through the coffee grounds more than one time.
Wassail
Place all ingredients in a large saucepan and bring to a boil over moderately high heat.
Reduce heat to low, partially cover pot and simmer 1 hour.
Serve hot.
Makes about 3 quarts (12 servings)
Lemonade
Mix together. Pour over ice. Serve.
Makes 5 servings (3/4 cup each)
Frozen Margarita
Mix all ingredients together in blender til frothy and chunks of ice have been chopped up evenly to make drink smooth. Serve in salt-rimmed glass.
To prepare salt rim on glass, dip edge of glass 1/2 inch deep into lemon or lime juice, then into coarse salt. Let dry at room temperature.
Tequila Sunrise (original)
Shake ingredients together. Serve in tall glass overice. Garnish with lime wedge.
Turkish Coffee
Turkish coffee is frequently made in a small brass or copper pot, using French-style dark roast coffee beans, with a combination of sugar and water. Ask the coffee shop where you buy the beans to grind the coffeebeans for turkish coffee (it will looked very powdered, something like cocoa).
The brew is brought to a boil and removed from heat until the froth subsides. This procedure is repeated twice more, with the frothing coffee then being poured into tiny demitasse cups for serving.
To 1 cup cold water in pot, add 2 teaspoons sugar. Bring to a boil. Take off heat and add 1 heaping teaspoon powdered coffee. Bring to boil as above described, being careful not to boil the coffee over the top of the pot. Do this twice.
Pour into small cups. Sip while HOT.
Do not drink the very bottom of the coffee as it is the settled grounds.
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