There are a great many drinks; most of them are prepared on the basis of or with the addition of fruits, berries, milk. Our favorite soft drinks, kvass, fruit drinks, cocktails and other drinks can be easily prepared at home.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- Water
- sugar
- berries or fruits
- dried fruits
- milk
- cream
- ice cream
- syrup
- mixer or blender
- glasses
- pan
- sieve
- a spoon
- glass
- plate
Instruction manual
1
Heat 2 liters of water for future fruit drinks. Mash 1 kg of cranberries with a wooden pestle. Add 50-70 g of granulated sugar to the berries. Leave on for 15-20 minutes, then wipe through a sieve. Set aside the puree mixture of fruit drink, fill the remaining cake with boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, then strain. Add the cranberry puree set aside earlier, let it brew for several hours. Traditional cranberry drink mors is ready.
2
Rinse the dried fruits you want to make compote from. It can be dried apples, pears, prunes, dried apricots, raisins or any others at your discretion. For a drink with oriental notes in boiling water, you can dip a stick of cinnamon and 5-6 cardamom fruits. Just do not add sugar, dried fruits intended for compote, and so it is abundant. If you observe the correct proportion - 400 g of dried fruits per 2 liters of water - there will definitely not be a lack of sweetness.
3
Prepare fruit for fresh juice. The most juicy citrus fruits: oranges, tangerines, grapefruits. Also, pineapple belongs to the fruits from which a lot of juice is obtained. Citrus juices are rich in vitamins, in particular, vitamin C. Such juices can be recommended in the autumn-spring period. To make citrus juice, cut the fruit in half and treat each half with a centrifugal juicer.
4
Take milk and ice cream - we will make a milkshake. For every 500 ml. milk with a fat content of at least 3.5% will need 250 g of cream ice cream. Unfortunately, more and more often ice cream is made with the addition of emulsifiers, which makes it less fat. On the one hand, excess fat is harmful to the body, on the other hand, additional emulsifiers, often also not in the best way affect health. The conclusion suggests itself: they would leave the fat content of ice cream! In general, if the ice cream is “dietary”, add an additional 50-70 g of fat cream (at least 35% fat) to the milkshake, otherwise the cocktail will not beat. For lovers, you can diversify this drink with various syrups. 1 tsp syrup will be enough to turn a glass of milkshake into strawberry, cherry or raspberry.
note
If the fruit drink turned out to be too thick, for example, because of the pectin contained in apples, pears, quince, do not dilute it with water. Dilute with a small amount of orange juice.
Useful advice
To make homemade drinks not only tasty, but also healthy, try not to make them too sweet. Excessive sweetness does not apply to gastronomic trends.