These are depressing times—if the terrorists don’t get you, the stockmarket surely will. Here are two recipes to give your spirits a lift during the festive season. The hot cocktail is for those of you freezing in the north Indian winter; the chilled concoction is for our friends in the balmy south.
Hot Buttered Rum
- 2 tablespoons white rum
- 2 tablespoons dark rum
- 4 whole cloves (lavang)
- 2 cinnamon sticks (daal chini)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon butter
- Boiling water
Sangria
- 1 bottle red wine
- 1 whole orange peeled and sliced into thin rounds
- 1 fresh peach, peeled, pitted and sliced thin
- 1 lemon with the peel sliced thin
- 4 tablespoons cognac
- 4 tablespoons Cointreau
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 quarter of 750ml bottle of soda water
Bhaichand Patel is a party animal & cocktails expert. His book on cocktails and spirits, a Penguin imprint, will come outin mid-2009.
