Summer Drinks ..........

since it is very hot here. It was 100oF and 105oF Saturday and Sunday, I must drink lots of fluids. Do you have favorite drink or tea recipes that you can share? My favorite tea is Chai Tea. Below is a recipe. Chai Tea For 6 cups 3 black or peko tea bags 10 all spice balls 2Tablespoons of fennel seeds crushed 10 cardamom seeds crushed 2 teaspoons of anise seeds 6 C boiling water Bring water to a boil and drop in all of the ingredients and let simmer for ten minutes. Cool and serve sweetened with a little cream over some ice. It is scrumptious. COLD PRESSED COFFEE Put one quart of coffee in a bottle with a large mouth. Grind enough coffee to make one half cup of coffee. Grind the coffee very fine. Place the coffee grinds on top of the water lightly. Take a pencil and lighly poke a hole through the grinds. Let the water and coffee stand at room temperature until the coffee filters to the bottom of the bottle. This will take twelve to fifteen hours. Then pour the coffee into another bottle and refrigerate. Pour two ounces into a glass and add about six to seven ounces of water. Add ice and half and half or cream and sugar. If you want to add honey, dissolve the honey in a little hot water and then add to the coffee. This is the purest coffee because the coffee is never heated and the bitter acids never disintegrated into the water because the water is not heated. If you want hot coffee, just heat the water and add to two ounces of the cold pressed cofeee. This coffee is easier for the body to digest also. It contains 67% less acid and fifty percent less caffeine; therefore, it is easier for the body to metabolize cold pressed coffee. FRUIT SMOOTHIE 8 ounces of soymilk or regular milk a banana 4 strawberries 1/2 mango cinnamon and nutmeg to sprinkle atop place ingredients in a blender and blend until well blended. Spinkle cinnamon and nutmeg atop. Serve over ice. You may omit the mango and just use the banana and strawberries or just the banana. You may also use other fruit like pineapple. Smoothies give a lot of energy and they are good for maintaining a good blood sugar level so you won't be hungry for awhile. VIETNAMESE COFFEE If you have a little Vietnamese individual coffee maker, use it. If not, make a cup of very strong coffee. Follow the last part of the recipe. For one glass of iced Vietnamese coffee 2Tablespoons of dark coffee or coffee with chickory ground very fine Pour 4-5 Tablespoons of condensed milk into a glass. Place coffee maker over the glass to drip the coffee into the cream. Put coffee into individual drip Vietnamese coffee maker and tighten the screw so the water, you pour boiling water into the maker, the water will drip through the coffee grinds slowly. This will take about twelve to fifteen minutes. Stir the cream and coffee together until well blended. If you use strong coffee, just slowly pour the coffee over the cream and stir. Add crushed ice cubes. Add lots of crushed ice cubes. This is the most delicious coffee. It is like eating a dessert. It taste more like a dessert than just coffee. Enjoy!

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