Servings: 6 – 8

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Simmer Time: 4 hours (low) or 2 hours (high)

What You Need:

• 3 apples, peeled and sliced
• 3 whole cloves
• 2 bottles of dry red wine
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/2 cup sugar

What You Do:

1. Thoroughly mix all ingredients in a crockpot.
2. Cover and heat on high for 2 hours or on low for 4 hours.
3. Remove cloves and cinnamon sticks and serve from crockpot into mugs.

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Servings: 4

Prep Time: 10 minutes

What You Need:

• 4 cups of cold milk
• 1 cup of seltzer
• 8 tablespoons of chocolate syrup

What You Do:

1. Set up 4 12-oz. glasses with 1 cup of milk in each.
2. Top them with seltzer until the white foam reaches the rims of the glasses.
3. Pour 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup into the bottom of each glass.
4. Quickly stir each glass with a long spoon, keeping the white foam at the rims.

Serving: 1

Prep Time: 2 minutes

What You Need:

• 3 oz. silver or gold tequila
• 1 oz. triple sec liqueur
• 2 oz. fresh lime juice
• coarse salt
• 1 fresh lime wedge
• 1 large cocktail glass
• ice cubes

What You Do:

1. Run a lime wedge around the rim of a cocktail glass.
2. Dip glass rim into a plate of coarse salt.
3. Combine rest of ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
4. Shake well and strain into the glass, adding a lime wedge for garnishment.

Servings: 4

Prep Time: 10 minutes

What You Need:

• 4 tall drinking glasses
• 12 ounces of bourbon
• 4 tablespoons of syrup (2 tablespoons water/ 2 tablespoons sugar)
• 12 large, fresh mint leaves
• crushed or cubed ice
• 4 mint springs for garnishment
• 4 drinking straws

What You Do:

1. Muddle 3 mint leaves and 1 tablespoon of syrup in the bottom of each glass.
2. Fill each serving with ice cubes or crushed ice.
3. Add 3 ounces of bourbon to each glass.
4. Top each drink with a mint sprig and serve with straws.

Servings: 10 (4 oz) glasses

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Chill Time: one hour in refrigerator

What You Need:

• 1 bottle (750 ml) dry red or white wine
• 2 ounces triple sec liqueur
• 2 ounces brandy
• 2 ounces orange juice
• 1 ounce lemon juice
• 1 ounce lime juice
• sugar syrup (2 ounces, made from sugar and water: see below)
• lemon slices
• lime slices
• orange slices

What You Do:

1. Prepare sugar syrup by boiling 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water until sugar is dissolved.
2. Combine all liquid ingredients in a pitcher. Stir well.
3. Place fruit slices on top.
4. Add ice to chill.