Chai - only for "adults"
Time
Preparation time: 45 min.
Cooking or baking time: 4 hours
Rest period: 20 hours
Total preparation time: 24 hours 45 minutes
A tea for adults only ?: This is an old-fashioned recipe from the old-school days, when everything was not better, but in the memory was beautiful ... grin.
We always do the chai when a group of winter riders or rider friends come together for a meeting.
The weather was great, it was snow and was -3 ° C, so the ideal Tschai weather!
The chai tastes best when kept warm over a beech wood fire, this requires a correspondingly large cauldron of about 20 liters content with handle handle, a tripod or something similar and of course a fireplace.
The kettle is made to taste the smoke of the fire in the taste of the chai? S, only then is it a real chai.
However, the chai also needs a lead time of one day, for the basic preparation, so the approach.
ingredients
For the approach the day before:
- 20 teabags black tea variety to taste
- 5 l red wine dry
- 500 g raisins
- 500 g of dried apricots
- 500 g of dried plums
- 150 g brown sugar
For the completion the next day:
- 6 L of red wine dry
- 1 L Rum 54%
- 250 g of hazelnuts ground
- 250 g almonds ground
- 25 bags of mulled wine spice
- 250 g of brown sugar
- 3 oranges with edible skin
- 1 lemon with edible shell
preparation
Approach the day before:
- Remove the tea bags from their protective cover and pack 10 pieces on their hanger with a tacker and handle the same with the other 10 tea bags.
- Hang the teabags over a trowel and pour over 4 liters of boiling water, the tea should be very strong, so let it last a good 10 minutes, then he has the right strength for our chai.
- Approximately Stir 100 g of brown sugar and remove the tea bags and allow the tea to cool.
- Rinse the dried fruit cold and dry with kitchen paper. Add the fruit to the kettle and make up to about 5 liters of red wine, depending on the volume of the bottle.
- Cover the kettle with cling film, cover it, and let it through until the next day.
Completion the next day:
