Masala Chai Recipe

Ingredients



  • 2 cups water
    3 - 4 tsp tea leaves
    1 chunk dried ginger
    3 - 4 crushed cardamom pods
    3 whole cloves
    1 piece cinnamon
    1 - 2 whole black peppers
    sugar
    milk




1. Bring two cups of water to the boil. Add all the ingredients (except milk and sugar) and boil again for about 15 seconds. Let stand for one minute.


2. Warm milk in a pot. Filter the above tea into cups. Add milk and sugar and serve.


Exotic Finn Recipe

Ingredients



  • 2 parts Finlandia vodka
    1 part passion-fruit syrup
    1 tsp strawberry syrup
    Sprite soda




Fill a highball glass with cracked ice. Add the first three ingredients and stir. Top up with sprite and garnish with mint leaves, a strawberry, a twist of orange and a straw.


Ole Skeiedal, from Norway, took first place in the long drinks listing of the 1993 Finlandia Vodka International Drinks Competition.

Inverted Traffic Light Recipe

Ingredients



  • 1 oz peach schnapps
    orange juice
    1/2 oz grenadine syrup
    1/2 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
    1/2 oz Absolut vodka




Fill a cocktail glass with ice. Pour in peach schnapps, then add orange juice 3/4 to the top and shake. Slowly add and sink the grenadine to the bottom. In a mixer, mix the blue curacao with vodka and slowly strain that into the cocktail glass.