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Spiced Honey Iced Tea
Ingredients
1. 1 quart water
2. 8 Earl Grey tea bags
3. 8 cinnamon sticks, broken into pieces
4. 8 cardamom pods, crushed
5. 2 tablespoons coriander seeds, crushed
6. 2 teaspoons anise seeds, crushed
7. 2 teaspoons allspice berries, crushed
8. 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns, crushed
9. 3 tablespoons honey
10. Lime wedges for garnish
11. Thinly sliced oranges for garnish
12. Cinnamon sticks for garnish
How To Make
1. Bring the water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add the tea bags, remove from the heat and let steep for 20 minutes; discard the tea bags. Reheat the tea and pour it into a heatproof bowl. Add all of the spices, cover and let steep overnight.
2. Strain the tea into a medium saucepan. Reheat the tea and stir in the honey; let cool. For each drink, pour the spiced tea over cracked ice. Garnish with a lime wedge, an orange slice and a cinnamon stick and serve.
Yield: 8 servings
Bushmills Irish Coffee
Ingredients
1. 1 1/2 ounces Bushmills(R) Original Irish Whiskey
2. 3 ounces hot coffee
3. 1 teaspoon sugar
4. 1 teaspoon heavy cream, slightly whipped
How To Make
1. Pour coffee into a warmed Irish coffee glass mug. Add sugar to taste and stir to dissolve.
2. Pour in Bushmills(R) Original Irish Whiskey; top with slightly whipped cream, poured gently onto the drink over the back of a spoon.
Yield: 1 servings
Coffee Toffee ‘Pie’
Ingredients
1. 1/4 cup granulated sugar
2. 1 1/2 cups Rice Krispies, partially crushed
3. 1/2 ounce fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), finely chopped
4. 2 teaspoons instant coffee granules or powder
5. 2 cups 1% milk
6. 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
7. 3 tablespoons cornstarch
8. 3 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), finely chopped
9. 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
10. 2 teaspoons dark rum
11. 1/3 cup well-chilled heavy cream
12. 1 teaspoon packed light brown sugar
13. 1/4 teaspoon instant coffee granules or powder
14. 1 teaspoon dark rum
15. 1/2 ounce bittersweet chocolate shavings, shaved with a vegetable peeler from a bar of chocolate
How to cook
1. Make crust: Cook sugar in a dry small nonstick skillet over moderate heat, undisturbed, until it begins to melt. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally with a fork, until sugar is melted into a deep golden caramel, 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Remove pan from heat, then immediately stir in Rice Krispies and quickly transfer to springform pan, spreading evenly over bottom and smoothing top with back of a small spoon. (If using pie plate, press crust up side of plate slightly.)
3. Sprinkle chopped chocolate evenly over warm crust to melt, then spread melted chocolate with back of spoon to cover crust. Cool until chocolate is hardened.
4. Make filling: Dissolve instant coffee in 2 tablespoons milk in a small bowl, then stir in gelatin and let stand.
5. Whisk together cornstarch and remaining 1 7/8 cups milk in a 1 1/2- to 2-quart heavy saucepan and bring to a simmer over low heat, stirring constantly (this will take about 15 minutes; 1% milk curdles easily if heated too quickly). Continue to simmer, stirring, 2 minutes.
6. Remove from heat, then add gelatin mixture, chocolate, brown sugar, and rum, whisking until smooth, about 1 minute. Transfer mixture to a metal bowl set in a larger bowl of ice and cold water. Cool filling, whisking constantly (so gelatin doesn’t set unevenly), just to room temperature, 3 to 5 minutes, then pour over crust in pan. Chill, covered, until set, about 3 hours.
7. Make topping: Beat cream with brown sugar using an electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks. Dissolve instant coffee in rum and fold into cream.
8. Spread evenly over chilled custard, then run a thin sharp knife around edge of ‘pie’ and remove side of pan.
Yield: 6 servings