Spiced Apple Tea

Ingredients2 cups unsweetened apple juice
6 whole clove1 cinnamon stick (3 inches)
3 cups water
5 individual tea bags
Additional cinnamon sticks (3 inches), optional

DirectionsIn a small saucepan, combine the apple juice, cloves and cinnamon stick. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10-15 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, bring water to a boil. Remove from the heat; add tea bags. Cover and steep for 5 minutes. Discard tea bags. Strain juice mixture, discarding cloves and cinnamon. Stir into tea. Serve warm with additional cinnamon sticks if desired. Yield: 5 servings.

APPLE MARTINI

With sour apple liqueur
2 oz. Vodka
1 1/2 oz. Bols sour apple liqueur
1/2 oz. Lemon juice
Apple slice for garnish

Pour ingredients into mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into your Swank Martini Glass and garnish with a thin slice of green apple.

This makes one martini

Apple Jack

Here are two great drinks for fall made with apples that can be served either hot or cold.

Apple Jack (Original) recipe
6 part  Jack Daniels  
12 parts apple schnapps
6 part sweet and sour mix
6 part club soda

Mix well serve over ice with a slice of apple and a cinnamon stick to stir with.

Apple Jack1 1/2 cup Jacxk Daniels
6 cups mulled apple cider
1 1/2  cups ice

Mix together in a pitcher less drink mixing and more fun! Serve with sinnamon sticks in a glass to stir. Also great served warm on a chilly night.

Hot Spice Cider

Take a sip of cider and close your eyes. Surely there is no taste that is more evocative then on a clear, crisp, golden autumn day.

This week I will be expermenting with drinks that have apples in the.  There will be alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.

When I think of the fall I think of warm apple cider this is one of favorit drinks through out the Holiday season.

Hot Spice Cider
6 cups fresh apple cider

1/4 cup pure maple syrup (more or less, to taste)

2 cinnamon sticks

6 whole cloves

6 whole allspice berries

6 strips orange peel

6 strips lemon peel

Directions
Pour the apple cider and maple syrup into a large stainless steel saucepan. Place the cinnamon sticks, cloves, allspice berries, orange peel and lemon peel in the center of a washed square of cheesecloth; fold up the sides of the cheesecloth to enclose the bundle, then tie it up with a length of kitchen string. Drop the spice bundle into the cider mixture.

Place the saucepan over moderate heat for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the cider is very hot but not boiling.

Remove the cider from the heat. Discard the spice bundle. Ladle the cider into big cups or mugs, adding a fresh cinnamon stick to each serving, if you like.