New year is a good opportunity to please the family and guests not only tasty dishes, but also original drinks. New Year's beverages can be both alcoholic, and nonalcoholic, and their concrete choice depends not only on your tastes, but also on the dishes served to a table.
Caribbean champagne
This popular drink will become original aperitif and well will approach light meat and vegetable meals.
It is required to you:
- 15 ml of white rum; - 15 ml of banana flavored liqueur; - 150 ml of champagne; - banana.
All ingredients for cocktail have to be in advance cooled.
Pour in rum and liqueur in a high glass and mix. There add champagne, regularly stirring slowly. Decorate ready cocktail with edge of a glass a banana slice.
Acapulco
It is required to you: - 160 ml of tequila; - 120 ml of liqueur of cointreau; - 1 lime; - 1 mangoes; - chipped ice. Peel mangoes and cut on pieces. On a bottom of each glass put several pieces of fruit and ice. Squeeze out juice of a lime, pour it in a shaker and add tequila and cointreau. Shake up components and pour on glasses with mango ice. Give a tubule and a small spoon to cocktail to eat fruit.
That cocktails resembled longer a New Year's treat, glasses can be decorated with a peel of oranges or brilliant thematic stickers.
Mulled wine
It is required to you: - bottle of red wine; - 3/4 cups of water; - 100 g of sugar; - cinnamon stick; - 1 orange; - 1 apple; - 3 tablespoons of a cranberry; - several inflorescences of a carnation. Open wine and pour together with water in a pan. Bring to the boil, but you don't boil. Pour sugar into mix and wait until it is dissolved. Cut orange circles together with a peel, peel apples, remove a core and crush cubes. Put fruit, cinnamon and a carnation to wine and you cook not less than half an hour. Serve mulled wine hot in mugs or glasses with handles. Also consider that this recipe can be altered depending on your tastes. For example, instead of sugar it is possible to add honey to wine. Also the quantity and structure of spices varies. It is possible to replace and wine - mulled wine is cooked also from white wine, though is much more rare. Awaking with the best addition to mulled wine biscuit or cakes.
Egg cocktail
It is required to you: - 4 eggs; - 70 g of sugar; - 500 ml of milk; - 200 ml of cream; - 3 tablespoons of bourbon; - 1 tsps of nutmeg; - pinch of ground cinnamon. Break eggs, having separated the whites from the yolks. Pound yolks until white with sugar. Beat whites in dense foam, then gradually add to them cream, milk and bourbon, continuing to shake up this weight. At the end add spices and yolks with sugar. Pour the turned-out cocktail on glasses. For appearance it is possible to strew cocktail with a chocolate crumb or ground nuts.