No cinnamon, or overly spicy, chocolate drinks (did I just rule out everything?) :/

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I always make hot lemon-and-honey “tea” when it’s fuck-off cold out. It’s what my mom did for sore throats (which I did get, and still got, frequently in the winter) so it’s super comforting.

    Just squeeze about 1/2 of a lemon into a mug of hot water, then drizzle in honey to taste. Best done with a highly flavored local clover honey imo. And you can use a teaspoon or two of the storebought squeeze bottle lemon concentrate if its all you have.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
    15·
    1 year ago

    Try a squeeze of lemon, half an orange, a little honey, a half-pinch of salt (it’s really that little salt, it is just the tiniest bit to bring out the flavour) and about 2 drops of lysergic acid diethylamide. You’ll thank me later.

    • ptrknvk@lemmy.world
      1410·
      1 year ago

      For confused non-Americans: Americans call an apple juice cider. It’s not alcoholic over there.

      • Tedrow@lemmy.world
        143·
        1 year ago

        Cider is two things. Hot cider is specifically a spiced apple juice, served hot. Cider also refers to alcoholic cider made from fruits, usual apples. If you go to a bar and ask for a cider in the States you will not receive hot cider.

        • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
          81·
          1 year ago

          I think you read that backwards. They’re not saying there’s no alcoholic cider in America, they’re saying it’s an American thing to say cider when refering to non-alcoholic apple juice. If you look for cider elsewhere you will get a fruit-based alcohol, you will not get apple juice.

          • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
            81·
            1 year ago

            Apple juice is not cider though. Apple juice is clear and flat. Cider (alcoholic) is clear and bubbly. Cider (nonalcoholic) is brown and served hot or cold and spiced or unspiced.

            Any of these can be made with other fruit, but apple is the most common.

            • Player2@sopuli.xyz
              11·
              1 year ago

              Pure apple juice is not clear, it has to be specifically processed to be that way

              • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                When I make it by putting an apple in my juicer it’s pretty clear. Maybe translucent is a better word? I don’t do any special processing.

                • Player2@sopuli.xyz
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Interesting, whenever I would make it it would always come out kind of thicker and brownish, especially as it stood around (oxidation I guess). Probably varies by the kind of apple, but the more ‘natural’ kinds I have found at the store also tend to be pretty brown, certainly not clear.

  • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    Ginger and honey drink. You can buy it prepackaged from Asian grocers (and probably amazon). Gold Kili is the brand I like.

  • CPMSP@midwest.social
    91·
    1 year ago

    Mulled wine. You can go as heavy or as light on the spices you like. I’m a fan of mulled mead. Great cold weather drink.

    Just caught N / A. In that case, hot apple cider or a big mug of Earl Grey. Can’t go wrong with black tea.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
    91·
    1 year ago

    🇭🇺 Sült tea / 🇨🇿 Pečený čaj

    The name means “baked tea” and it is just as popular on Christmas markets in the Visegrád countries as Glühwein (mulled wine) is in Germany. It probably isn’t sold where you live but you can make it at home.

    • Sterilize some jam jars.
    • Take all sorts of warm wintery fruit (apples, pears, oranges, plums, raisins, grapes, strawberries, cherries, mandarines, blackberries, blueberries, currant, raspberries, figs, anise, lemons) and chop it into small pieces, like 8x8x8 mm at most. Remains from juicers are OK. Add sugar (300 g/fruit kg) and cinnamon (1 tsp/fruit kg), perhaps some spices (such as clove).
    • Preheat your oven to 180-220 °C.
    • Bake in an open roasting pan for 30 minutes. Stir every 5-10 minutes.
    • (Optional) add 100 ml/fruit kg rum and mix it in while the fruit is still hot.
    • Fill the jars, wipe their edges, screw on the lids and leave them to cool upside down.

    To make the tea, put 1-2 tablespoons of the mix into a mug with 250 ml of hot water. Once you’ve drunk the fruity tea, use a teaspoon to eat the fruit.

    You may argue that it is actually food, and point taken. However, for some reason this is the thing I think of when someone says “beverage”.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
    8·
    1 year ago

    You Guys, I settled on Ginger Lemon tea and Chunky™️ Chicken Noodle 😁. Also a king-sized glass of wine…

    Lots to try throughout rest of season tho!

    I’ve grown fond of these little chats we have :)

  • atkion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I’m fond of wassail. It’s usually made with cinnamon, but you could exclude it and it should turn out alright.

  • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Inka Polish grain beverage. Hard to find in US stores but can be ordered. Add the powder to fully boiling water then add what you like. My preference is honey and soy milk to end up like a love child of coffee and hot chocolate.