Classic Grog..for adults

[Goomba]

It randomly got REALLY cold in Pennsylvania and I was in super need of something to warm my body....and my soul. Straight coffee was not helping, nor was tea so I turned to the only other option that made sense; my liquor cabinet.
Once open, the logical choice was rum but I wanted something slightly warm, but this tends to do strange things to the taste of liquor by itself. Started looking at my cookbooks trying to figure out what to do when I spotted a very old sea port based cookbook that had just what I wanted....GROG. Grog was traditionally made with British tea due to spice trade on those very ports which becomes the bases and brings in more flavors and allows one to enjoy with the ability to still stand up afterwords. So here is my recipe that I came up with after the research from those recipes in that book.


8oz freshly brewed English Tea
1/8c dark spiced rum
1 slices of orange
1 tsp sugar
1/2tsp lemon juice
cinnamon stick (optional)
orange peel garnish (optional)


Place Sugar in the bottom of a coffee mug, add the orange over top of it. Poor in Hot tea to dissolve the sugar. Add the rum. Mix in the lemon juice. Add garnishes and enjoy. Simple as that.



please note: this drink obviously contains alcohol. I do not support the consumption of such products by minors. Please enjoy responsibly. 
thanks for looking. *goomba*

[craftylittlemonkey]

Yum! I'll have to try this, thank you.

Here's a classic Canadian recipe for you (excellent for chills)

~ Blueberry Tea:

1/2 oz Amaretto
1 oz Gran Marnier
Deeply steeped Earl Grey tea
Orange slice for garnish

Pour alcohol into a brandy snifter and add tea to heat and taste. So flipping delicious.

[InkedKnitter]

Yum! I'll have to try this, thank you.

Here's a classic Canadian recipe for you (excellent for chills)

~ Blueberry Tea:

1/2 oz Amaretto
1 oz Gran Marnier
Deeply steeped Earl Grey tea
Orange slice for garnish

Pour alcohol into a brandy snifter and add tea to heat and taste. So flipping delicious.

How is this blueberry tea?

Both recipies sound yummy! Thanks for sharing.

[craftylittlemonkey]

I have NO idea! That's just what it's called. Weird eh? I think it's possible that it might have been served garnished with whole allspice or cloves which would have looked like blueberries maybe? Delicious hot tea drinks by any name are fantastic by me though, lol. I'm such a lush.

[Goomba]

I have NO idea! That's just what it's called. Weird eh? I think it's possible that it might have been served garnished with whole allspice or cloves which would have looked like blueberries maybe? Delicious hot tea drinks by any name are fantastic by me though, lol. I'm such a lush.

this question is now something I am pondering which means I am going to research the heck out of it until I understand why.
I'm with you for sure though. Long Island Iced Tea, Grog....tea with booze?! Count me in! You can for sure count me in if that some drink has some sort of interesting history to it.


"Its name derives from its fruity taste, which some compare to blueberries."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_Tea_%28cocktail%29

makes sense to me

[pjr107]

Yummy looking!  Have to head over towards your house cause it's near by somewhere ( live in PA as well, near Philadelphia and no I'm not really going to show up...not THAT crazy...
BUT my DH and I brew mead (honey wine) and it's super easy and very tasty.  Other thing I make is mulled apple cider, which I keep warm in my crock pot during a party and the alcohol can be added in for just the adults.

16 cups apple cider ( juice works to)
1/2 cups packed brown sugar
2 tsp whole cloves
2 tsp whole allspice
2 large cinnamon sticks
2 oranges studded with whole cloves (for garnish)

Heat over medium flame until it comes to a low boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 20 min. Strain and serve with orange slices as garnish. 

Variations: 6 cups of apple or dry red wine (we have used any wine white or red as well as rum, vodka and schnapps.)
Also, add 6 cups orange juice ( or other favorite juices)  for additional flavor.

I don't strain my spices cause I'm really lazy... I just put a tea ball over the cup as it is poured in.   

Keep warm all!
-PJ

[Goomba]

I love this exchange of adult beverages we have going here.

pretty sure we will need to switch roles and I need to head to Philly then. I have a super giant interest in brewing mead but for one have never had it and don't want to spend a half year-year aging something that I may not like.

[MareMare]

Yum! I love "and my soul."

[InkedKnitter]

Yummy looking!  Have to head over towards your house cause it's near by somewhere ( live in PA as well, near Philadelphia and no I'm not really going to show up...not THAT crazy...
BUT my DH and I brew mead (honey wine) and it's super easy and very tasty.  Other thing I make is mulled apple cider, which I keep warm in my crock pot during a party and the alcohol can be added in for just the adults.

16 cups apple cider ( juice works to)
1/2 cups packed brown sugar
2 tsp whole cloves
2 tsp whole allspice
2 large cinnamon sticks
2 oranges studded with whole cloves (for garnish)

Heat over medium flame until it comes to a low boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 20 min. Strain and serve with orange slices as garnish. 

Variations: 6 cups of apple or dry red wine (we have used any wine white or red as well as rum, vodka and schnapps.)
Also, add 6 cups orange juice ( or other favorite juices)  for additional flavor.

I don't strain my spices cause I'm really lazy... I just put a tea ball over the cup as it is poured in.   

Keep warm all!
-PJ

What is the difference between apple cider and juice? I know that the cider in non alcoholic (unlike in the UK) but I assumed it was the same as juice.

Also.. does Long island iced tea have tea in it?? In the UK it is a cold alcoholic cocktail.

[Goomba]

Apple Cider is unfiltered.


if it's clear and tan you've got juice. If it's mercy and brown you've got cider.

please Craftster...post the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEZVZ-2k6Po

[InkedKnitter]

Apple Cider is unfiltered.


if it's clear and tan you've got juice. If it's mercy and brown you've got cider.

please Craftster...post the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEZVZ-2k6Po

HAHA love it! Thanks so much.

[craftylittlemonkey]

does Long island iced tea have tea in it?? In the UK it is a cold alcoholic cocktail.

Nope! Not a drop of tea at all.

And let me tell you, Blueberry Tea tastes of oranges, not blueberries. I don't get it.

[Goomba]

does Long island iced tea have tea in it?? In the UK it is a cold alcoholic cocktail.

Nope! Not a drop of tea at all.

And let me tell you, Blueberry Tea tastes of oranges, not blueberries. I don't get it.

no it doesn't traditionally contain tea and due to that reason, I sorta reworked a basic recipe of it cause it didn't make sense to me. So mine does, and I call it the same thing. hahaha

very strange. I may have to make one at some point just to find out.

[JennaDickes]

I love my hot toddies but this looks very yummy too. I never realized that grog was made with tea. I always figured it was like a rum version of moonshine or something haha.

 I made up a godfather type concoction that's nice and warm too if anyone's interested. Godfather's are my go-to drink but since it's starting to get cold out I tried to find a way to make it hot. This is probably a drink already and I don't even know it 
- 1 part Amaretto
- 1 part scotch
- pinch of ground cloves
- hot/steamed milk (I used my espresso steamer)
- garnish with some cinnamon
Yeah it's very sweet but mmmmm

[craftylittlemonkey]

Have you had hot buttered rum? I thought it would be disgusting, I mean BUTTER in a drink? Ugh. But it's not, it's delicious. There are quite a few recipes online but I'd recommend the very basic until you know if you like it or not. I predict you will!

[Clarachk]

Well, thank you for sharing! Sounds delish! (As does the other recipe that someone sweetly sumbitted in your comments). I sure could use a cup of that right NOW! It is FREEZING up in this cubicle farm of mine. It is just too bad that I answer phones for a living, haha! Might not sound so nice when I answer if I am all loopy and droopy, LMAO! When I get home tonight though... that's when I get to raid our brand new liquor fridge!! WOOT!

[Goomba]

Have you had hot buttered rum? I thought it would be disgusting, I mean BUTTER in a drink? Ugh. But it's not, it's delicious. There are quite a few recipes online but I'd recommend the very basic until you know if you like it or not. I predict you will!

I got bored of Rum and Rootbeer one night and decided to just make some buttered Rum....OH MY...let me tell you why my bottle of rum is almost empty....

[pjr107]

I love this exchange of adult beverages we have going here.

pretty sure we will need to switch roles and I need to head to Philly then. I have a super giant interest in brewing mead but for one have never had it and don't want to spend a half year-year aging something that I may not like.

I'm assuming you're in Pitt ... When we head out to cedar point in Ohio for the summer I'll bring a bottle for you to try.... Don't think the post office would want use to mail it... we make ours from kits but very once in a while we "add" to the recipe!

That buttered rum sounds yummy ESP since my son's bedroom is so freaking cold you can see your breath! The door was shut all day and oh boy is it cold in here! About another 30min and huge difference but until then, the dog and four blankets can cover us!

Then I'll go make some yummy warm drink before bed.  My DH has been making me a Carmel apple martini and oh boy is it good. I know it as apple schnapps and some sort of carmel liqueor, have to read the bottle.

-pj   

[MareMare]

Slightly related (and slightly random) but I was watching Alton Brown's "Punch" show the other day on alcoholic punches and he did a sailor type punch that had a base of tea and he claims that's the ancestor of the Long Island Iced Tea. He said olden times punches were 1 part sour (lime juice), 2 parts sweet (sugar), 3 parts strong (booze), and 4 parts weak (tea), and also a fifth thing was spice (nutmeg). Kind of interesting, but I love his show.

[MeganCrafts]

I love this exchange of adult beverages we have going here.

pretty sure we will need to switch roles and I need to head to Philly then. I have a super giant interest in brewing mead but for one have never had it and don't want to spend a half year-year aging something that I may not like.

I'm assuming you're in Pitt ... When we head out to cedar point in Ohio for the summer I'll bring a bottle for you to try.... Don't think the post office would want use to mail it... we make ours from kits but very once in a while we "add" to the recipe!

That buttered rum sounds yummy ESP since my son's bedroom is so freaking cold you can see your breath! The door was shut all day and oh boy is it cold in here! About another 30min and huge difference but until then, the dog and four blankets can cover us!

Then I'll go make some yummy warm drink before bed.  My DH has been making me a Carmel apple martini and oh boy is it good. I know it as apple schnapps and some sort of carmel liqueor, have to read the bottle.

-pj   

I'd be completely ok with a visit!  I'd love to meet you.  (Goomba is my wonderful other half.)

[pjr107]

I love this exchange of adult beverages we have going here.

pretty sure we will need to switch roles and I need to head to Philly then. I have a super giant interest in brewing mead but for one have never had it and don't want to spend a half year-year aging something that I may not like.

I'm assuming you're in Pitt ... When we head out to cedar point in Ohio for the summer I'll bring a bottle for you to try.... Don't think the post office would want use to mail it... we make ours from kits but very once in a while we "add" to the recipe!

That buttered rum sounds yummy ESP since my son's bedroom is so freaking cold you can see your breath! The door was shut all day and oh boy is it cold in here! About another 30min and huge difference but until then, the dog and four blankets can cover us!

Then I'll go make some yummy warm drink before bed.  My DH has been making me a Carmel apple martini and oh boy is it good. I know it as apple schnapps and some sort of carmel liqueor, have to read the bottle.

-pj  

I'd be completely ok with a visit!  I'd love to meet you.  (Goomba is my wonderful other half.)

HEY!!! that's cheating!!!! I *KNOW* where you live  Ok, have to make a new batch and we can celebrate your new place from what, last year or something like that...
He does beer too if you want to try that?  That's where we started cause we didn't want to brew and not like doing the process.  It's prob one of the few times I get him into the kitchen beside when I try and make pasta...
there is some commercial meads on the market but I really don't think they taste as good as ours.  I'm not a big dry/tart fan.... I like things sweet.  I'm one of those who will ruin a great glass of Champaign by adding ginger ale to it.  
and yes, we've even done a ginger ale for the kids

-PJ

and visiting Philly is fine by me!  me casa et sue casa (who's sue?)

[Goomba]

Slightly related (and slightly random) but I was watching Alton Brown's "Punch" show the other day on alcoholic punches and he did a sailor type punch that had a base of tea and he claims that's the ancestor of the Long Island Iced Tea. He said olden times punches were 1 part sour (lime juice), 2 parts sweet (sugar), 3 parts strong (booze), and 4 parts weak (tea), and also a fifth thing was spice (nutmeg). Kind of interesting, but I love his show.

Honestly, that is where I based the mod of mine from. I own every Godd Eats Episode / all the books so the research kinda happened by mistake.

I love this exchange of adult beverages we have going here.

pretty sure we will need to switch roles and I need to head to Philly then. I have a super giant interest in brewing mead but for one have never had it and don't want to spend a half year-year aging something that I may not like.

I'm assuming you're in Pitt ... When we head out to cedar point in Ohio for the summer I'll bring a bottle for you to try.... Don't think the post office would want use to mail it... we make ours from kits but very once in a while we "add" to the recipe!

That buttered rum sounds yummy ESP since my son's bedroom is so freaking cold you can see your breath! The door was shut all day and oh boy is it cold in here! About another 30min and huge difference but until then, the dog and four blankets can cover us!

Then I'll go make some yummy warm drink before bed.  My DH has been making me a Carmel apple martini and oh boy is it good. I know it as apple schnapps and some sort of carmel liqueor, have to read the bottle.

-pj   

I'm not big on flavoring martinis but that does sound pretty great for a cold night.
I'm always down to meet folks, even more so if there is something tasty involved.

[MASCmanik]

1. Thank you for posting a delicious sounding recipe!
2. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this thread/post - it was 6 degrees here the other day and I'm craving something hot & tasty that will warm my belly too!
3. Mead is delicious, like alcoholic honey, my FIL brews and I always want to take home a bottle when we visit, maybe I will next time ...
4. Definitely trying some of this inspiration this weekend, huzzah!

[pollyprissypants]

Baha, that Simpsons episode is exactly what I thought of when I saw that question posted. Well played, sir.

[freedy]

It randomly got REALLY cold in Pennsylvania and I was in super need of something to warm my body....and my soul. Straight coffee was not helping, nor was tea so I turned to the only other option that made sense; my liquor cabinet.
Once open, the logical choice was rum but I wanted something slightly warm, but this tends to do strange things to the taste of liquor by itself. Started looking at my cookbooks trying to figure out what to do when I spotted a very old sea port based cookbook that had just what I wanted....GROG. Grog was traditionally made with British tea due to spice trade on those very ports which becomes the bases and brings in more flavors and allows one to enjoy with the ability to still stand up afterwords. So here is my recipe that I came up with after the research from those recipes in that book.


8oz freshly brewed English Tea
1/8c dark spiced rum
1 slices of orange
1 tsp sugar
1/2tsp lemon juice
cinnamon stick (optional)
orange peel garnish (optional)


Place Sugar in the bottom of a coffee mug, add the orange over top of it. Poor in Hot tea to dissolve the sugar. Add the rum. Mix in the lemon juice. Add garnishes and enjoy. Simple as that.



please note: this drink obviously contains alcohol. I do not support the consumption of such products by minors. Please enjoy responsibly. 
thanks for looking. *goomba*

I have never tasted this one before. I have to try this one out. Thanks for sharing this recipe.

Kampai!

[craftylittlemonkey]

Check it out! Great minds think alike .

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2012/01/recipe_old_fashioned.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+craftzine+%28CRAFT%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

[Goomba]

Check it out! Great minds think alike .

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2012/01/recipe_old_fashioned.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+craftzine+%28CRAFT%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

That's actually my "usual"

[mel4576]

Sounds like that will keep you warm!

[ysmeine]

Very interesting. I remember hearing about it before but had not tried it. I did make hot buttered rum once and a hot toddy. I will have to try that one. Although, maybe with a homemade vanilla spice rum as I am allergic to cinnamon.

[Jane2]

Inkedknitter;

It's called Blueberry Tea because it tastes like blueberries I think.
(Near the end of the second teacupful you do not worry about what it tastes like. Just that you are warm!)

I've only ever had it made with Amaretto on its own (no Grand Marnier), and with ordinary tea (not Earl Grey). And we probably skimped on the orange slice too. (BG)

[sxyskeksis]

Mead is amazing and do not judge it by whats on the market (usually Chaucer's) which is usually honey wine which is technically different than mead.

Grog is such an old name that it's applied to a lot of drinks, almost always rum based. If I remember correctly it's thought that originally it was rum and water (or drinkable equivalent of the day) that was given to sailors as part of their rations.

As I used to perform as a pirate to me grog is rum, rum, rum, with a little more rum in it!! But this sounds delicious and sure makes me wish I had some rum!

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[LimeRiot]

Ohhh!! Happy to find this project! Perfect for winter time. I want one right now .

[MareMare]

I just made myself a glass, yum!

[Goomba]

Well, don't I feel awesome right now!?
no really, I do. Thanks so much. Cheers every one!

[sweets4ever]

Well, don't I feel awesome right now!?
no really, I do. Thanks so much. Cheers every one!

Thank you!

[Belladune]

Now I need some tea with booze.  Yum!