{"id":928,"date":"2016-11-24T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/?p=928"},"modified":"2016-11-24T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T21:17:19","slug":"russian-spice-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2016\/11\/russian-spice-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian spice tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My house smells <em>amazing<\/em> right now, because I am making my great-grandmother&#8217;s Russian spice tea, to bring to my friends&#8217; Thanksgiving dinner. It&#8217;s a delightful winter party drink, and it&#8217;s also good to make if you have a household full of people fighting a cold.<\/p>\n<p>And, speaking of cold and flu season, because the recipe was already on my mind, I also made the instant version, so that we can drink it all winter. It&#8217;s good when you&#8217;re feeling well, but it feels like <em>magic<\/em> when you are stuffy or have a bit of a sore throat. (You could throw in more cloves for extra numbing effect&mdash;who needs Chloraseptic?)<\/p>\n<p>The instant version isn&#8217;t something you&#8217;d confuse for the real thing. It&#8217;s a tasty beverage in its own right, but it is different from the fresh version. It&#8217;s good to have on hand, though: I don&#8217;t know about you, but I don&#8217;t always have the energy to juice 11 citruses. (With arthritis, I don&#8217;t actually <em>ever<\/em>; Dale juiced more than half of the citruses today.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing both recipes here, so that you can also enjoy one or both of these winter beverages. (Fair warning: they both contain a fair bit of sugar.)<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"spice-tea\">Nanny&#8217;s Russian spice tea<\/h2>\n<p> (<em>with a few modifications by Coral<\/em>) <\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>8 cups water<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 tsp ground cloves<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp allspice<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp ginger<\/li>\n<li>2 cinnamon sticks (more would be OK)<\/li>\n<li>3 bags of black tea<\/li>\n<li>3 lemons<\/li>\n<li>8 oranges<\/li>\n<li>2 cups sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Directions:<\/h3>\n<p>Juice the citruses. (Keep the peels, and you can use them for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/313211\/candied-citrus-peels\">candied citrus peels<\/a>. Don&#8217;t listen to Martha Stewart; you don&#8217;t have to include grapefruits, and lemon and lime peels are both great, candied.)<\/p>\n<p>Put the spices and the water into a pot, and bring to a boil.<\/p>\n<p>Remove from heat, add the tea bags, and let it stand for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add the citrus juice and sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy hot. If you don&#8217;t drink it all right away, it&#8217;ll last in the refrigerator for a few days and can be reheated by the mugful.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"instant-spice-tea\">Instant Russian spice tea<\/h2>\n<p> (<em>with a few modifications by Coral<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2 cups of Tang powder<\/li>\n<li>1 pouch of Wyler&#8217;s lemonade mix (I used 6 of those little &#8220;make a bottle of water into lemonade&#8221; pouches, and that worked fine)<\/li>\n<li>1.5 cups of unsweetened instant tea powder<\/li>\n<li>3 tsp cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1 scant tsp cloves<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp allspice<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp ginger (more would be fine)<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Directions:<\/h3>\n<p>Mix all of the ingredients up. Store in an airtight container (or several &mdash; one for home, one for work, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>To drink: Mix two heaping teaspoons per cup of hot water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(The <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/russian_tea.jpg\">image from the post header<\/a> shows both types of Russian spice tea, together.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My house smells amazing right now, because I am making my great-grandmother&#8217;s Russian spice tea, to bring to my friends&#8217; Thanksgiving dinner. It&#8217;s a delightful winter party drink, and it&#8217;s also good to make if you have a household full of people fighting a cold. And, speaking of cold and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2016\/11\/russian-spice-tea\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian spice tea<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}