Drink Like a Fish

Homemade refreshment Sangria

‘Sangria’ is a Spanish term for mixed fruit and wine that became popular in Europe back in middle age and originates in Spain and Portugal. Spain alone has quite traditional sangrias although today sangria is more popular around the world than the place it originates. Mostly locals do not often prefer sangria and its just tourists who order them in bars and cafes now.

The fun fact is before the modern times back in the middle age drinking water was unhealthy as it would contain a lot of unfiltered bacteria so people used to drink everything with a little amount of alcohol, spices and herbs in it considering it would kill the bacteria. Originally sangria is prepared in red wine, but you can even make it on your own with sparkling wine, white wine and rose wine giving it an ecstatic twist and taste.

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Ingredients

• Red wine
• ½ cup of brandy or bitters
• 2 oranges
• 2 green apple or Red apples
• Any sweetener (Sugar/brown sugar/cane sugar)
• 1 lemon
• 1 cinnamon stick
• Sparkling water or lime soda
• How to make

Add the red wine of your choice into a big container, add all the sliced citrus fruits and sweetener into the pitcher jar, squash a little with a wooden spatula.

Then add a little brandy to the mixture and diced lemon into it and mix it well.

Add a cinnamon stick or any other spices if you want. Refrigerate it for 30 minutes and its ready to serve.

Serve the sangrias by topping them up with soda water or sparkling water.

• Make your own Cosmopolitan drink, and make it right!

Known as a gimlet (vodka and lime juice), cosmopolitan was born in the times of the Second World War. As people needed something with gin and vodka to consume, post the changing times one thing led to another and there was an addition made to the drink till it came to be known as ‘Cosmopolitan’. It is believed that after World War 2 Cointreau an orange flavoured drink was discovered from France and was added to the gimlet and the drink became to be known as ‘Kamikaze’. Later on, in the ’80s cranberry juice was added to kamikaze and the Cosmopolitan was born! Well, the origin of the most popular drink worldwide is still a controversy.

The craze of having a cosmos never faded and then sex in the city featured it on its show which gave cosmos a cachet. Since then it’s a movement and mostly drink girls prefer.

Ingredients

• 2.5 ounces of citron vodka
• ½ ounces of Cointreau
• ¾ cranberry juice cocktail
• ¼ fresh lime juice
• Orange twist and ice
• How to make

Add vodka and Cointreau (orange flavoured liqueur) into a cocktail shaker. After this add cranberry juice and lime juice to the mixture, also put ice and shake for about 30 seconds. Making this heavenly tasting cocktail is that easy, you can also garnish the glass with orange peel or its wheel. To add your own exotic touch to it you can pour in some sweetener, depending on your taste bud.

• Sangria
• Cosmopolitan

From the February-March 2021 issue of FHM India.