Christmas Beverages - Cheerful and Merry!

What really compliments food at a party, are the beverages which are offered. If you go to fine dining place, the staff will actually recommend a beverage depending on what you have ordered as food. Just as the parties held during Christmas have special eatables right from the finger food to the main course and desserts, in the same way the beverages that people have on Christmas are special and are meant to warm up the bonding during the Christmas season. These beverages are not all alcoholic and some can be even taken as a dessert. They are therefore famous with men, women and children alike. Some of these beverages are as follows -

• Christmas Eggnog: This is a wonderful Christmas beverage which is served to people when they go around visiting homes. This drink is milk based, with eggs, sugar and nutmeg for flavor. The drink can be also made alcoholic by adding a measure of whisky or rum. Eggnog is normally served as a sweet drink along with some Christmas cookies.

• Snowman Soup: This nonalcoholic beverage is also a milk based beverage, where the milk is boiled and the chocolate is then melted into it. About 15 mini Marshmallows are then added to the Chocolate milk. You may also want to add two or three chocolate kisses. The Snowman soup is served in a Christmas mug with a candy cane for stirring.

• Cranberry Champagne: This is made by mixing 1 part of cranberry pulp with 1 part of cranberry juice and 1 part of champagne. This beverage gets a deep red color which complements the Christmas season.

• Red Wine Jelly in Sparkling White Wine: A packet of grape jelly is boiled in red wine and set in small mould which are then added as cubes in sparkling white wine and served to the Christmas guests. Sometimes a leaf or two of mint is added to render the beverage the Christmas colors of deep red, white and green.

• Orange Blossom Punch: This non-alcoholic drink is such a bright color of orange that it looks like a little lamp when filled into a small round glass. It has a sparkling white grape juice base with orange juice concentrate and frozen pieces of strawberry.

So the next time you are asked for Christmas beverage party ideas, you can freely quote some of the above.