Beverages

Hot Cocoa

• Ingredients
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup cocoa
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 cups water
  • 4 cups milk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Cinnamon to taste
• Instructions
  • Mix sugar, cocoa, salt, and water. Heat until boiling.
  • Boil for 2 minutes.
  • Stir in milk. Heat but do not boil.
  • Add vanilla and cinnamon.

Lemon Sirup for Tea

• Ingredients
  • Same amount of sugar and finely sliced lemons/limes (usually 1kg each)
• Instructions
  • Mix sugar and sliced lemons.
  • Leave standing for several days, shaking/mixing occasionally.
  • Separate the sirup from the lemon peels.
  • Mix with water to make tea.

Chai

• Ingredients
  • 500 mL water
  • 500 mL milk
  • 3 pods green cardamom
  • 2 tsp loose-leaf black tea
  • 6 tsp sugar
  • Pinch of salt
• Instructions
  • Boil water, tea, sugar, salt, and ground cardamon seeds.
  • Add milk after it starts boiling.
  • Heat up again and bring to a boil.
  • Strain into teapot.