Holiday Drinks

Holiday Drinks-2016

It seems going through my Holiday Drink Posts, that I've done
over the years. I haven't done a Christmas one of group holiday drinks for you all! I had a look back and it would seem that I've done one for Thanksgiving, Halloween but for Christmas I did many single or double holiday posts. I thought for this year and all its Madness that is happening around the world...I would do a post with many different kinds of Holiday Drinks for you all!
If you have a look on my blog you can find a few good ones, like that of the 'Candy Cane Cocktail' and Christmas in Glass'. So here are some that I thought you all would like to try...🎅 

Pomegranate and Rosemary Gin Fizz-
Ingredients:🎅
2oz. Nolet's Gin
1oz. Pomegranate Juice
5oz.Lemon Juice
Club Soda
Rosemary Sprigs &
Pomegranate
Arils for Garnish.
Directions:
Shake & Strain into Glass.
Garnish Rosemary & Pomegranate.

Bailey's Cinnamon
Toast Punch-
Ingredients:
2oz. Baileys Pumpkin
Spice1/2oz.Cinnamon Syrup
Hot Apple Cider, to Top
Orange Wedge and
Cloves, for Garnish
Directions:🎅❄❄
Combine Baileys Pumpkin
Spice and Cinnamon
Syrup into a cocktail shaker.
Shake well. Strain contents
into a coffee mug and top with
hot apple cider. Garnish
with orange wedge and cloves.

Holiday Cup-❄❄❄⛄
Ingredients:
2-parts Absolut Elyx(Johan Linderberg
New Luxury Vodka)
0.5.part Blackberry Liqueur
1 part Lemon Juice
6 Crushed Blackberries
6-Raspberries
Champagne, to top off with
Directions:🎅
Combine first 5 ingredients together in
a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake hard
until ice cold. Strain into a copper cup over
crushed ice and top with champagne, Garnish with
a blackberry and orange twist.

Something May Catch Fire-
Ingredients:
2oz. Tamarind Infused Espolon Blanco Tequila
3/4 oz. Cherau Aloe Vera Liqueur
3/4 oz. Yellow Chartreuse
1oz. lemon Juice
3/4oz. Pineapple Juice
Directions:⛄⛄❄
Shake-strain-serve over crushed ice. Garnish
with lime wheels, cassia sticks and rosemary.
Burn rosemary and cassia with a butane torch.

Tinsel Bellini-🎅❄❄❄
2oz.Hpnotiq Liqueur
1oz.Limoncello exact
1oz.Champagne
Splash of Lime Juice
Direction:
Rim the champagne flute with a light coat of sugar.
Pour chilled Hpnotiq Liqueur, Limoncello exact and
Champagne into the champagne flute.
Add a splash of lime juice.

Cranberry Aperol Spritzer-
Ingredients:⛄
2oz.Aperol
2oz.Cranberry Juice
4oz.Sparkling Ice Essence of Tangerine
Orange Peels for Garnish.
Directions:
Fill glass with ice, combine Aperol and cranberry
juice and pour into glass. Then top with Sparling Ice
Essence of Tangerine, Stirring gently, Garnish with
an orange peel.

The Pama Kiss-🎅🎅🎅
Ingredients:
11/2 oz.Pama Pomegranate Liqueur
3/4oz.Sour Apple Vodka
1/2oz.Cranberry Juice
Directions:
Mix ingredients in martini shaker. Shake well. Serve
on the rocks. Garnish with sugar-dusted raspberries

Mocha Nog Punch-🎅⛄⛄
Ingredients:
10 parts Kahlua Mocha
5 parts Absolut Vanilla
20 parts Eggnog
Directions:
Combine ingredients and serve in a punch
bowl with a floating ice block.
Hint:Freeze ice with coffee beans for decoration. Add mint and
Cinnamon stick too.

Light and Stormy-
Ingredients:❄❄⛄⛄⛄
.5oz. Lime Juice
.5oz. St. George Raspberry Brandy
2oz of White Rum
Q Ginger Beer
Ice❄❄
Direction:
Fill a 12oz. glass 3/4 full of cracked ice. add ingredients,
shake and garnish with a lime wedge. Stir to chill and serve
with a stirrer.

Pomegranate and Thyme Spritz-🎅
Ingredients:
Thyme Syrup
Ice, for serving
12oz. Pomegranate Juice
12oz. Truly Spiked and Sparkling
Sicilian Blood Orange.
Directions:
In a small sauce pan set over medium heat-
combine the can sugar, water and thyme.
Stir until the sugar has dissolved, bring to a simmer
and then immediately turn off the heat. Cover and allow to
cool and steep about 15mins.🎅
Then fill up four glasses with ice. Add an ounce 2TBS of
syrup to each glass. Top with about 3oz. of pomegranate
juice and then top with Truly Spiked and sparkling Sicilian
Blood Orange. Give it a light mix and then garnish with thyme
sprigs.

Broad Street-
Ingredients:
2oz. Knappogue Castle 16 year🎅
2oz. Birch Coffee Cold Brew
.75oz. Demerara Syrup
1 dash Bittermen's Mole Bitters
Benedictine Whipped Cream
Ice Cubes
Grated Nutmeg for Garnish❄❄
Directions:
Shake all but the whipped cream with one ice cube
and strain into glass over fresh ice. Top with the whipped
cream and nutmeg.

Holiday Cosmo-
Ingredients:
2parts Abolut Elyx
1part Triple Sec
1.5 parts Mulled Spiced Cranberry Juice
o.5 parts Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
Directions:
Combine ingredients together in a cocktail shaker over ice.
Shake hard until ice cold. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a string of red currants dusted with powdered
sugar. *mulled spiced cranberry juice-There are many recipes
for creating a 'mulled' juice or wine. Based on using a
1-liter carton of cranberry juice we suggest a combination of
1 sliced lemon and 1sliced orange plus the zest form 2 additional
fruits combined with fresh grated ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon-all to your taste.🎅
Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan and simmer for
around 45mins. Be careful not to boil. Strain and chill well
before use. Store in the refrigerator and the juice will last for
around a 1week. For best results prepare mulled spiced
cranberry juice at least 24 hrs in advance.

Mexican Manzana-
Ingredients:
2parts Sauza® 90® Tequila
1 part Apple Cider🎅❄❄
1part Maple Syrup
1/4tsp. Apple Cider vinegar,
to cut sweetness.
Dash of Orange Bitters
Directions:
Combine all ingredients over ice except apple cider
in mixing glass and shake vigorously. Strain over
ice into prepared mug. Top with apple cider and
serve with swizzle stick.

Chambord and Champagne-
Ingredients:
2 1/2 oz. Chambord
Champagne🎅💕
Raspberries for Garnish
Directions:
Add Chambord to bottom of flute glass and
top with champagne. Drop in a raspberry
for Garnish.

Pama Pine-🎅
Ingredients:
4oz. Van Gogh Pineapple Vodka
4oz. PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
Splash of Lime Juice
Directions:
Combine all, shake and serve Enjoy.

Very Merry Bourbon Alexander-🎅💕
Ingredients:
1oz. Bourbon
1oz. Cream de Cocoa
1oz. Half and Half
One Egg White
Dash of simple Syrup
Dash of Salt
Garnish Nutmeg, Cranberries,
and a Sprig of Rosemary.
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into a shaker with ice
and shake vigorously. Strain into a coupe glass.
Garnish with nutmeg, cranberries and rosemary too.

Tequila Hot Toddy-🎅💖💕
Ingredients:
1/3 part Jim Beam Honey
1/4 part Honey
1/4 part Orange Juice
2 parts Hot water
Cloves
1 Cinnamon Stick
1 Orange Peel
Directions:
Boil Water add all your other ingredients into a mug.
top with boing water and stir. Garish with Cloves cinnamon
stick and orange peel.

Slowpoke Rodriguez-🎅❄❄
Ingredients:
2 Strwberries
10-12 Mint Leaves
1.5 oz. Talero Silver Tequila
1oz. Fresh lime Juice
.75oz. Monin Hibiscus syrup
1.5 oz. Club soda (add after shake)
Ice, crushed
Garnish; Skewed strawberry Fan,
2-lime Wheels, Mint Sprig
Directions:
Add strawberries, 6 mint leaves and Hibiscus syrup
into mixing tin. Lighting muddle to press the juice out of
the berries and release fragrance from the mint.
add the ice and shake vigorously. Now add 1.5 oz club
soda into mixing tin and strain over crushed ice with
6 mint leaves on the bottom of the glass.

Velvet Oubliette⛄
Ingredients:
Cream Cheese Foam
4 Egg Yolks
40 ml. Sugar Syrup
100 ml. single cream
4 heaped spoons Cream Cheese
Foam Canister
2 Cream Bulbs
Directions:
Add all ingredients to a food processor and whizz until
all ingredients are incorporated. Add the liquid to a creamer
syphon and shake vigorously then charge with cream bulbs.
Refrigerate for 30mins before use.
Or add all ingredients except cream to a two-part shaker with
cubed ice and hard shake until chilled and diluted. Double strain
into a chilled speakeasy coupette, cap with cream cheese foam.
Garnish with crushed freeze dried raspberries Serve.

Apple Pie Moscow Mule🎅
Ingredients:
4oz. Apple Cider
4oz. Apple Pie Vodka or Caramel Vodka
1 bottle Ginger Beer or Hard Apple Cider Beer
Directions:
Fill 2 copper mugs with ice. In a cocktail shaker combine
all but the beer. Shake it up. Fill the mugs half way. Finish
with the beer until full. Garnish with cinnamon sticks and
apple slices.

Smoked Anise🎅💕
Ingredients:
1/8 oz. Laphroaig 10 year old
1/2 oz. Marie Brizard Anisette
2 oz. Sobieski Vodka
Star Anise for Garnish
Directions:
In a mixing glass combine all ingredients and fill
with ice. Stir well for 15 seconds and julep strain up into a
chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a flowing star anise.

Merry Christmas

and

Happy Holidays I hope that you

all have a wonderful Season of Love

Peace and Family.

Much love forever

Your Friend

Wendy

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Holiday Drink Gifs-2016

CHRISTMAS CINNAMON 
CARAMEL APPLE MARTINI

Good evening my dears. Welcome to my humble blog. I thought with the Holidays

coming very soon. I would do a post with a favorite Christmas Drink and a few fun

Holiday Gifs that I found. I hope that you all enjoy the post

Happy Holidays

YOUR WENDY...🎅⛄⛄

Ingredients:

1 oz. Butter-shots Schnapps

2 oz Vodka

1 oz. Butter-shots Schnapps

2 oz Vodka

1 oz Rose's Sour Apple Mix 

Maraschino Cherry

Cinnamon

Brown sugar 

Caramel syrup

Candy cane and fresh apple slice for garnish

Directions:

1- Sprinkle some brown sugar and cinnamon on a small plate. Then
pour caramel syrup on top of the sugar mixture in a circle. Dip the rim of a martini glass in the mixture and spin back and forth and all around until the whole rim is coated. Place the glass or glasses in the freezer until ready to use.

2-In a shaker with ice, add the Butter shots, the vodka and the sour apple mix. Shake for a minute. Remove the glass or glasses from the freezer. Place one maraschino cherry in the bottom of the glass. Pour the mixer from the shaker into the glass. Garnish with a Candy Cane & an apple slice and serve.

HISTORY OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CAROL

History of the First Christmas Carols-

Good Afternoon my dear Friends and Followers. For today’s post, I thought I would travel through the history of Christmas Carols. I have always tried to find interesting things about the history of Christmas Traditions and Christmas Carols is one that I haven’t touch on…So I hope that you enjoy the Post.

The First Know Christmas Carol was traced to the 4^th century Rome. They were, Latin hymns (Veni redemptor gentium) written by Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan. These were austere statements of the theological doctrine of the Incarnation in opposition to Arianism. Of the Father’s heart, begotten (Corde natus ex Parentis) written by the Spanish poet Prudentius is still sung in some churches even today!

In the 9^th & 10^th centuries the Christmas ‘Sequence-Prose’ was introduced in the Northern European monasteries, which developed the ‘Bernard of Clairvaux’ into a sequence of rhymed called ‘Stanzas’. By the 12^th century, is when popular songs were introduced to something closer to the traditional Christmas Carols of today. It was a Parisian Monk -Adam of St. Victor who had derived music from popular songs into traditional Christmas Carols. And so, it began with an idea from a Parisian Monk in the 12^th century.

Now were into the 13^th century and France, Germany and particularly Italy under the influence of Francis of Assisi a strong tradition of popular Christmas songs in its regional native languages had developed These Christmas songs. In 1426 is when the first Christmas Carols in English appeared, as the works of John Awdlay a Shropshire chaplain who lists 25 ‘Carols of Christmas’ which were probably sung by groups of ‘Wassailers’, who went from house to house during that time. For me that is the beginning of Christmas carols – house to house…It would seem that the songs that we know specifically as the Christmas Carols -were originally communal songs sung during celebrations like that of harvest tide as well as at Christmas time…It was only later that the Christmas carols began to be sung in the church and to be specifically associated with the Christmas season. By the year 1582 many of the Christmas Carols had gained popularity and were printed in the late 1500’ in Piae Cantiones a collection of the late medieval Latin songs which were all published in 1582 gained popularity today! There were early forms of Latin Carols such as ‘Christ was born on Christmas Day’, “Good Christian Men’, ‘Rejoice’, & ‘Good King Wenceslas’ can be found in the collection of the Medieval Latin songs published in 1582.

In the mid-18^th century ‘Adeste Fideles’ (‘O Come all ye faithful’) appears in its current form, although the words may have it originated wording of the 13^th century. Plus, the origin of the tune is disputed too. It would seem that these Christmas carols gained in popularity after the Reformation of the countries when the Protestant churches gained prominence-as well-known as reformers like Martin Luther authored carols and encouraged their use in worship. This was a consequence of the fact that the Lutheran reformation warmly welcomed all music. This happens to be a 19^th Century Carol book such as a Christmas Carols, New and old 1871…

In the Christmas 19^th Christmas Carol Book for the first time in print appeared – [God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", The First Noel , Ships”, Hark]-  Were in the Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern book by Williams Sandys in 1833. There were other composers during that time that helped with the Christmas carol become be popularized too. These were Arthur Sullivan who gave us ‘Good Kings Wenceslas’ and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear’. There were others such as Edmund H. Sears & Richard S. Willis.  The publication of Christmas Carols New and old by Henry Ramsden Bramley and Sir John Stainer in 1871 truly was significant to the Christmas carols in Victorian Britain. However, in the year 1916, Charles Lewis Hutchins who published the ‘Carols Old and carols New once again as a scholarly Collection for all didn’t do well. Sadly, it suffered from a shortage of printing during that time and consequently the copy is rarely available today or even found! Then the Oxford Book of Carols was first published in 1928. It was done by the Oxford University Press, which was said to be notably successful with its collection of Christmas carols. Its main source for the book was Grand British composers ‘Martin Shaw, Ralph Vaughan Williams, author Percy Dearmer and a wide source of carols in many choirs and church congregations throughout Britain. The book is still in print in the 21th century…

As we roll into the 20^th century singing Christmas carols became more and more popularized. It would seem that one of the most popular of the Caroling books around was an English-speaking book called, ‘Carols for Choirs’.  It was first published in the year `1961. The people who, were involved in the project; was David Willcocks and Reginald Jacques. The ‘Carols for Choirs’ had become a bestseller series since the explanation to a five-volume set when it was first published in 1961. Today Christmas carols are usually sung at Christian religious services however, this is only one opinion from the research that I have found. I am sure that all over the world the many different regions of the many churches and non-church faith have beautiful ways of singing Christmas carols in their countries around the world to celebrate their god that gives them peace-love and salvation. There are some Carols that are composted which are clearly not with a religious theme but have great meaning to the people & are still referred to Carols of the Christmas season. For an example of these type of songs, on was the {wassailing song, Greensleeves, What Child is This?} These were written in the 16^th & the late 18^th century as Christmas related lyrics for the traditional English folk songs for popular Christmas Carols. The Singing of Carols in the Church was instituted on Christmas Eve in 1880. It was in the Truro Cathedral in Cornwall. Now Carols are seen all over the world in churches…The songs that were chosen for singing in church at the time omitted the Wassailing Carols. Then shortly before 1878, the Salvation Army under Charles Fry instituted the idea of playing Carols at Christmas using a Brass band. It would seem that very little research has ever been conducted on Carol singing but one of the few sociological studies of caroling in the early 21th century determined that eh sources of the songs are often very misunderstood. Now this is what I remember as a child of the 70’s.  To what Christmas Caroling was all about in my Youth. It seems that it has faded out with all the electronic future too sadly. I think it all started in England and a few other countries such as Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. Within these countries, they had a tradition of Christmas caroling that was earlier than the song Wassailing, written between the 16^th century & 18^th centuries. These groups of singers would travel from house to house singing the Carols at each, for which they are often rewarded with gifts, money, mince pies or even a glass of an appropriate beverage. Money collected in this way is now given to charity. Carols can be sung by individual’s singers, but are also often sung by larger groups including professionally trained choirs too. Most churches have special services at which they will sing the Christmas carols. Generally, will be combined with reading from scripture about the birth of Christ.

So, the question is…Why have Christmas Carols stuck around so long? There are many things to consider…While there are many wonderful Christmas Carols from the past, there are still a few Yuletide Carols of the modern times. Such as; ‘Jungle Bells’, ‘Do you Hear What I hear?’, ’It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ ‘Baby, Its Cold Outside’. However, there are some that aren’t’ so festive like that of;’ I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’ &’Dominick the Donkey’.

Today, the important fact about the Christmas Carol, is they are only about Christmas. Listeners are faced with the distinguishing them between the sacred songs-the secular church ones of long ago-and the modern Christmas carol songs. In the 21th century the Christmas carol, speaks of the ‘Christmas spirt’ and having Christmas Carols separate from the Church Carols…

This is how I have always remembered Christmas carols as a child and now as an adult. I hope you all enjoyed the history of the Christmas Carol. Love you all my dears

Your Wendy love and peace