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BEVERAGES

Hot Chocolate Mix

from Mary Gail Milner, Quitman, Tx

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INGREDIENTS
DIRECTIONS

1 8-quart box powdered milk

1 16-oz NesQuik chocolate powder

1 11-oz jar powdered coffee creamer

(we use CoffeeMate or Cremora)

2 cups powdered sugar (or more to taste)

  1. Mix dry ingredients together well

  2. Store in airtight container

  3. Fill cup or mug 1/3 full with chocolate mixture (or more to taste), and add hot water. Stir well.

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Spiced Tea

INGREDIENTS
DIRECTIONS

2 cups Tang orange drink mix

1 cup instant sweetened, lemon tea

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp cloves

  1. Mix well

  2. Store in airtight container

  3. Use 1 or 2 rounded tsp per cup of hot water

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Blueberry Lemonade

INGREDIENTS
DIRECTIONS

2 quarts frozen or fresh blueberries
1 cup blueberry juice
1 cup fresh lemon juice
3 cups sugar
water

  1. In saucepan, cover blueberries with water 1/2 inch over berries and boil for 20 minutes

  2. Strain and collect juice (you can use clean pantyhose or cheesecloth)

  3. This makes more juice than you need – freeze the extra

  4. Mix blueberry juice, lemon juice, sugar in gallon pitcher

  5. Fill pitcher with cold water to make one gallon

Russian Tea

INGREDIENTS
DIRECTIONS

​1 quart water
1 cup sugar
1 stick cinnamon
3 regular size tea bags  
1/2 fresh orange, sliced
1/2 fresh lemon, sliced
1 small 6-oz can frozen orange juice 
1 small 6-oz can frozen lemonade   
4 cans water 
1  1/2 cups pineapple juice

  1. Bring water, sugar, cinnamon to a boil

  2. Remove from heat and add tea bags, orange and lemon. Steep 15-30 minutes.

  3. Add frozen juices, water and pineapple juice

  4. Stir well and pour into ice-filled glasses

  5. We prefer cold, but can also be served warm

from Aunt Jo Stevens

Wassail

INGREDIENTS

1  48-oz apple juice
Sugar – approximately 1/2 cup
2 quarts CranGrape juice
1  46-oz can pineapple juice
1 quart orange juice 

A DEEDEE ORIGINAL

2 sticks cinnamon
Cloves
1 orange, sliced
1 lemon, sliced

 

HEAT AND SERVE

Wassail

Wild Plum Tea

INGREDIENTS
DIRECTIONS

4 family-sized tea bags
2 cups sugar
2 cups citrus juice drink (like SunnyD)
1/2 cup lemon juice

  1. In a one-gallon pitcher, steep tea bags in 1 quart of boiling water for 10 minutes

  2. In a small saucepan, combine sugar with 2 cups water and boil until sugar is completely dissolved

  3. Remove tea bags from pitcher and add sugar water, citrus beverage, and lemon juice

  4. Fill pitcher with cold water to make one gallon tea

This tea is from The Wild Plum Tea Room in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

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