Tag Archives: Booze

Unwholesomeness

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Maybe it’s a result of over-exposure to kids’ TV due to my own son, or possibly it’s due to the fact half the Blue Peter presenters of my generation spent their spare time with coke up their noses, but I can’t help but feel everything wholesome and good on television is secretly not.

Now I can’t watch CBeebies without thinking that the presenters spend their off hours in opium dens, drinking absinthe and writing angsty poetry, or that after a show they all go back to the executive producer’s dungeon and have really weird sex.

I am broken. =S

Winter Warmer

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If, like me, you’re a whiskey snob, ending up with a bottle of bad (or even worse, blended) whiskey can be a problem. I mull it! Being as it’s called a “warmer”, it is of course very alcoholic, and as it is called “Winter”, naturally I have only ever made this in July.

Ingredients

  • 1 bottle barely-tolerable whiskey
  • 4 litres orange juice
  • 1 litre cranberry juice
  • mulling spices.  Lots.  Seriously, if they come in a box, use the whole damn box.

Method

  • Put the whiskey and the juices in a large pan, and heat until barely simmering.
  • Add the mulling spices.  Continue barely-simmering for half an hour.
  • Transfer to jugs, thermos flasks, etc.  If your mulling herbs were free-floating rather than in bags, strain the mixture to remove them at this stage.
  • If desired, drink responsibly.  Otherwise, drink irresponsibly.