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Cinnamon Coffee
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E
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Fruit Drink
Fruit Shakes
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Italian Cream Soda
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K
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Lemonade
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N
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Oreo Shake
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Q
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Red Punch
Rootbeer Float
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Spiced Warm Drinks
Sun Tea
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Vanilla Milk
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Wassail
Wassail 2
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Cinnamon Coffee
1 cup coffee, ground
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp sugar
Stir all ingredients together. Use in a coffeemaker in place of regular coffee grounds.
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Fruit Drinks
1/2 sandwich bag frozen bananas
1-2 cups any other fruit you have handy, frozen or not
1 small tub yogurt
milk if needed
ice
Put about 1 1/2 cups ice into a blender. Blend until pieces are about 1/3 inch across at biggest. Add yogurt and blend a bit more. Add bananas and other fruit slowly, a couple pieces at a time, and belnd inbetween adding them. Add more ice, or add milk if needed to adjust consistency.
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Fruit Shakes
1/2 banana, sliced and frozen overnight
3 tbsp of any yogurt (vanilla works well)
1 cup orange juice
frozen or fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, or any fruit you like.
Place all ingredients in belnder and blend until smooth.
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Italian Cream Soda
Sprite, or other lemon lime soda, or any clear carbonated soda. MUST be clear, not Mountain Dew
Flavored syrup concentrate, like for snow cones (any flovor{s} you like)
ice
Add approx. 3 parts soda for each part syrup, or to taste. Stir well. Pour in a glass if you didn't start in one, and add ice.
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Lemonade
About 2/3 of a grocery bag of lemons
approx. 1 1/2 cups sugar
almost half a pitcher of water
Juice lemons. Mix with water, approx 2 parts juice, 1 part water. Add sugar to taste.
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Oreo Shake
handful of Oreos per person
about half a glass of either vanilla or chocolate or vanilla/chocolate like ice cream
half a glass of milk per person
Put all ingredients into a blender. Blend until smooth. Optional: save out oreos and break them up, then stir them in after milk and ice cream are smooth. Adjust ammounts for thicker or thinner shake. Varriations: Cookies and Cream ice cream, vanilla yogurt instead of ice cream, add marichino cherries
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Red Punch
2 (46oz.) cans pineapple grapefruit juice (3 cups reserved for ice ring)
1/3 cup red cinnamon candies
1/3 cup sugar
1 qt. ginger ale, chilled
Heat 1 cup pineapple grapefruit juice with cinnamon candies and sugar. Stir until dissolved. Combine heated mixture with remaining pineapple grapefruit juice, chill. Add the ginger ale just before serving.
Note:Pour some pineapple grapefruit juice into Jello ring and freeze for ice ring.
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Rootbeer Floats
1 can Barqs or A&W rootbeer per person
1 large scoop FRENCH VANILLA ice cream per person. Ben and Jerry's is best, or Dreyers
1 marischino cherry per person
Put ice cream into cups. Pour rootbeer over, and leave set for a few minutes. Garnish each with a cherry.
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Spice Bags for Warm Winter Drinks
8 sticks cinnamon, broken into small pieces
2 whole nutmegs, crushed
1/3 cup whole cloves
1/3 cup minced dried orange peel
(or 1/4 cup ground)
1/4 cup whole allspice berries
optional: garnish with cinnamon sticks, slice of orange, lemon peel
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, tie in sachets of 1 tablespoon each in a double thickness of cheesecloth; transfer to an airtight container. One sachet of the mixture will flavor 1 quart of cider, tea or wine.
To use, simmer 1 quart of the chosen beverage with 1 sachet for 20 minutes; ladle into mugs. If desired, add a garnish or a sprinkling of additional spirits.
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Sun Tea
Pitcher of water
tea bags, approx 6, or three family sized bags
Place tea bags in water, cover pitcher loosely. Put in the sun for 1-3 hours. Check on it ever hour or so, and remove from sun when its the right color. Refridgerate. Add lemon and/or sugar if desired.
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Vanilla Milk
milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract, or to taste
sugar and/or sprinkles to taste
Pour a glass of milk. Stir in enough vanilla that the smell is lightly detectable, or to taste. Stir in sugar and/or sprinkles to taste. Add ice, it's better.
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Wassail
1 can of frozen cranberry juice
1 can of frozen apple juice
1 cup of orange juice, grapefruit juice, or lemon juice or a combination of all three
1 cup of sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
12 whole cloves
cheese cloth
Make the frozen juices according to package directions and add to a large pot. Add the citrus juice and sugar. Place the cinnamon sticks and cloves in a cheese cloth a wrap them loosely. I use plastic twist ties to secure the cheese cloth. Place the cheese cloth into the pot and bring the liquid just to a boil then reduce heat to very low and let simmer for at least 2 hours....the longer it simmers the more the flavors blend. I usually double or even triple this recipe and store leftovers in plastic jugs in the fridge.
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Wassail 2
Serves 8-12
1 gallon apple cider
25-30 whole cloves
6-10 cinnamon sticks
1 quart pineapple juice
1 6 ounce can frozen orange juice concentrate
Mix all ingredients in a large pot and simmer. Serve hot.
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