With wife and daughter gone for shopping on this Sunday afternoon, after finishing my weekly quota of reading six newspapers, I was left with nothing to do.
Tired with getting bored, I began thinking of preparing some hot drinks which would be both tasty as well as healthy.
I finally prepared four drinks which I would be discussing here. These drinks can be easily prepared within almost no time and with ingredients that are available in every household. Let's see how surprised my daughter and wife get when they return home.
Home Made Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cocoa, 1/3 hot water, 4 cups milk, 1/2 (small spoon) salt, 3/4 (small spoon) vanilla Extract.
Time of Preparation
5 Minutes
How to Prepare
Pour sugar, salt, cocoa, and water in a pan and cook for 2 minutes while stirring. Now, pour milk into the pan and cook for 3 minutes without boiling the mixture. Take the mixture off the gas stove and mix vanilla extract into it.
Keep beating the mixture until it develops froth. Sprinkle some coffee powder on top of it. (Avoid coffee powder in case of children). Your drink is ready to serve now.
Hot Apple Drink
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Ingredients
1 litre apple juice, 2 cloves, 2 pieces of cinnamon, 1/3 cups brown sugar,
Time of Preparation
15 Minutes
How to Prepare
Pour all the ingredients into the pan and boil it. Cook for 15 minutes on low or Sim heat. Filter and serve hot with a peel of apple on the cup. Wow! that's easy!!! isn't it??
Tropical Tea
Ingredients
7 cups boiled water, 7 tea bags, 2 cups orange juice, 2 cup pineapple juice, 1/3 cups sugar, 2 small spoons of honey.
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Time of Preparation
10 Minutes
How to Prepare
Put tea bags in a pan of boiled water and cover it for 5 minutes. Remove tea bags from the pan and mix all other ingredients and cook for 5 minutes on low heat. It is ready to serve.
Lemon Basil Tea
Ingredients
2 cups water, 1 small spoon of finely chopped basil leaves ( tulsi patti), 1 small grated lemon peel, 2 small spoons of black tea.
Time of Preparation
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5 Minutes
How to Prepare
Boil water in a pan. Remove the pan from stove and mix basil leaves, lemon peel and black tea into it. Cover the pan for 5 minutes. Filter and serve hot.
And, as soon i finished preparing the drinks, door bell shrieked, signalling the arrival of my daughter and her mom.
As expected, wife yelled after seeing the 4 drinks on kitchen table, "OMG! you've again wasted my ingredients and gas. Will you ever learn to save money. Who will drink these experimental drinks of yours and that too 4 of them???What to do??/ and blah, blah, blah.......
Yours truly remained quite as usual.
