Grog appeared in 1740 thanks to Edward Vernon, who was then admiral of the British fleet and only after 1970 ceased to be part of the daily diet of British sailors. The admiral could not prohibit the sailors from drinking alcohol, but he also could not tolerate drunkenness.
He began diluting their 80 percent rum with water, to which sugar, spices and lemon juice were eventually added (to prevent scurvy and colds). It was the medicinal properties of the invented drink that prevented the sailors from tearing Vernon to pieces for weak alcohol.
The grog received its name in honor of the admiral’s waterproof cape - his constant companion, which in English was called “grogram cloak”.
The strength of grog ranges from 15 to 27%, and it is almost always drunk hot.
Effect on the body:
Alcohol, turned into a medicine two and a half centuries ago, is still popular today. After all, over the years, grog has not lost its medicinal properties. It warms and protects the body from infections, gives strength and calms the nerves. Being an excellent alternative to mulled wine and punch, grog lifts your spirits and protects against colds. Especially gloomy autumn and cold winter.
You can't drink grog:
- in large quantities (no more than 200 ml at a time)
- with a tendency to alcoholism and binge drinking with metabolic disorders and endocrine diseases (diabetes mellitus, obesity, gout, rickets, etc.)
- for liver and kidney diseases
Types of grog:
Not every drink can boast such variability as grog. The thing is that a number of factors contribute to this.
Firstly, the alcoholic base of grog can be not only rum, but also cognac, brandy, and whiskey. It is recommended to use dark rum, but gold and even white are quite suitable. There are recipes for the drink even based on vodka and even absinthe. In addition, there is grog and no alcohol at all.
Secondly, the classic recipe consists of only three components: rum, water and sugar. But additives such as honey (instead of sugar), tea or coffee (instead of water), spices, citrus juice or liqueur are a matter of taste. They allow you to create a recipe for everyone.
As for spices, you can use various compositions of cloves, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.
It is worth remembering that every tea and coffee is a new version of grog. This way you can create, for example, coffee grog. And this does not take into account the fact that some people add milk, cream, chicken eggs and dried fruit to the drink.
Just pay attention to the fact that when preparing grog at home, the optimal proportion of alcohol (rum, cognac, etc.) and the water part (water, tea, coffee) will be 1:3. This means you can reduce or increase the amount of alcohol in recipes to create the optimal balance.
Having made sure that the composition of the grog depends on the flight of fancy and the aspirations of the soul, you can move on to the main part.
How to make grog at home
Hello, dear readers. Today we have a very interesting topic for those who want to quickly warm up or avoid illness from hypothermia. I do not suggest you plunge into the ice hole, although it is a very good effect, at least for me and some of my friends. Still, winter is already over, and we hope that we won’t see snow for the next six months. So what will we talk about then?
And today we will talk about grog, you might have already guessed from the title of the article. Nowadays I prefer an ice hole, but before there were no bodies of water near us in which we could plunge into in the winter. Now it’s not nearby either, but there is a car.
So how can you warm up, with grog, of course, if you can have alcohol, of course. Although it is contained in small quantities, it is absorbed well into the blood. It is due to this that warming occurs.
I'll tell you how to make grog at home. I've made this recipe many times already. For me, this recipe is a classic, but not everyone will agree with me. I use cognac instead of rum. The recipe is very simple, and anyone can prepare it; the ingredients are very affordable and can be found in almost every home.
For grog we need black tea, lemon, sugar and of course cognac. I don't use spices. It’s just that when I first heard this recipe, and this was in the 90s of the last century, there was no mention of spices, and what I liked was that you can prepare one mug, and not liters, as is written in many recipes.
First of all, we need to brew strong tea.
I add one tablespoon of black tea and a slice of lemon to a mug of boiling water. We will get very strong tea. When the tea has steeped, strain it from the tea leaves. Then I add sugar. I also add a lot of sugar. For this serving - two tablespoons of sugar. While our tea was brewing, it had already cooled down. But we need it hot. You can heat it on the stove or in the microwave.
Now all we have to do is add cognac. We add 1/5 of the resulting strong tea of cognac. Of course, you can do less, but if you want to warm up quickly, then don’t skimp on cognac.
If you don’t have good cognac, you can see how to make cognac in my article “Homemade cognac from vodka or moonshine,” it turns out very tasty cognac. True, I used store-bought cognac for my grog; I didn’t want to open a bottle of cognac for 50 grams, but I had good cognac. I don't recommend using bad cognac for grog. This greatly affects the taste of our grog.
I would like to note that one glass of grog will be enough to keep you warm. I don't recommend drinking a lot of it. Because in combination with hot sweet tea, alcohol is absorbed into the blood very quickly. I also don’t recommend using alcoholic drinks after grog, it won’t have the same warming effect. And after drinking alcohol, there will be no such effect either. Grog should be used only for its warming effect, and only for the prevention of colds.
If you don't have cognac, then this is not a problem. Cognac can also be replaced with vodka. I told you at the beginning of the article that I learned this recipe in the 90s, heard it on TV, but I didn’t tell you what else I heard. The show was hosted by Boris Burda, and he talked a lot about the origin of the name grog, now you can quickly find out from the Internet, but then it was not so easy. But I will not tell the history of grog, but will tell you a few more similar recipes. I wanted to find this video, but then the Internet was not developed, and this video is stored somewhere in a television studio. Therefore, I will briefly retell the grog recipes.
In those distant times, there were several types of grog. Everything depended on your class. Sailor grog was considered the simplest and most accessible. To prepare it, you only needed strong sweet tea and cheap rum; now we can even replace it with vodka.
Those who were richer could afford to add lemon and good rum to strong sweet tea. This grog was called the officer's grog, now we use good cognac instead of rum. This is exactly the recipe that I told you.
And the strongest grog was considered to be the admiral's. His recipe was no different from the officer's. The only difference was in the quantity and quality of rum. Only the most expensive rum was used for the admiral's grog. What else is the difference between an officer's and an admiral's, but that there was always a bottle of rum next to the mug of grog. When the admiral took a sip of grog, he immediately added rum to the mug. And so on with every sip. Only an admiral could afford this on a ship. And not because he is rich, but because if you drink a lot of grog, you will simply get drunk. And on the ship everyone must be fully prepared for any surprises.
How and with what to drink grog?
Drink this drink hot (but slightly infused), in small sips or through a straw, savoring and enjoying. It requires thick-walled dishes made of glass, porcelain or clay (to retain heat longer).
Most often, the drink is served with pastries, dried fruits, chocolates, pancakes or pancakes. But he is good on his own. And many people love it just like that, in its pure form, without any snacks. There are various ways to prepare grog:
- Boiling. All components, including alcohol and spices, are boiled in water for 2-3 minutes, infused and poured into a cup.
- Brewing. Initially, tea or coffee with spices or herbs is brewed in a large teapot, where after 5 minutes lemon juice, sugar or honey and alcohol are added.
Using these methods you can prepare exclusive grog, just yours. And our recipes will serve as the basis for choosing components.
A little history
Grog is a drink consisting of strong alcohol and water. In the classic version, the base was rum. Why would anyone dilute this pirate drink with water? The fact is that until July 1970, rum was included in the daily ration of a British sailor. Drinking this type of alcohol was believed to prevent scurvy. But in the eighteenth century, the rum ration was serious: two hundred and forty milliliters of eighty-proof alcohol. It is not surprising that after him the sailors were drawn to various feats: starting a mutiny on a ship or boarding a ship. Admiral Edward Vernon decided to put an end to rampant drunkenness. The sailors behind his back called him “Old Grog” (translated as “old cloak”). It cannot be said that the sea wolves were delighted with the resulting drink. Moreover, the admiral diluted the rum significantly: he added four times more water than alcohol. But the British appreciated this drink. I just needed to heat the water.
Grog "Classic"
Prepare:
- rum (dark or amber) – 200 ml
- water (boiled) – 400 ml
- lemons – 2 units.
- sugar – 4 teaspoons
You need to prepare it like this:
- Squeeze the juice out of the lemons.
- Boil water and, reducing the heat, pour alcohol, juice and sugar into it.
- In 2-3 minutes of continuous stirring, the sugar will dissolve and the drink can be poured into cups.
- Boil the homemade grog for 2-3 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved, stirring it with a kitchen spatula.
Try to prepare the same recipe, but replace the rum with cognac (or use white rum), sugar with honey (in the amount of 1-2 tablespoons), and water with tea and add 2 buds of cloves and 1 stick of cinnamon (or other spices as desired). They need to be immersed in water after it boils along with other components. At the end, this drink needs to be strained. Spices can be added without boiling - but only before bottling. But then there is no need to filter the drink. By the way, it is quite appropriate to put a slice of orange and lemon into a cup of grog.
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Grog "Quiet Tone"
30 minutes 2 vander-o Winter is coming.
Quite punctual and specific, with a chilly wind and biting frost... And how nice it is to return home in the evening after a hard day on the railway tracks, swinging a pick and a crowbar, sit by the fireplace, turn on your favorite plasma or take a volume of Camus and sip warm grog, enjoy the peace... . In this regard, I want to share my signature recipe. It's called "Quiet Tone".
Milk grog
Mix all the ingredients and heat without bringing to a boil. Serve to guests in a tea glass with a spoon.
Egg grog
Beat all ingredients well in a mixer, adding crushed ice. Serve in a tall glass, top with grated nutmeg and garnish with a mint leaf.
Christmas grog
Tie cinnamon, ginger, cloves in gauze. Pour red wine and sugar into a saucepan, add spices and heat slowly over low heat. Remove the spices, add vodka and white wine. Heat but do not boil. Divide raisins and almonds equally into 8 glasses and pour in grog. Serve hot.
Grandfather's grog
Boil.
Mix the juices and nuts in the dishes. boiling water, stir rum and cognac (vodka). straightaway. glasses garnish with lemon and orange.
Bishop's Grog
Pour water, sugar, cloves and cinnamon into a saucepan and heat. While the water is heating, wash the oranges and lemon, grate them and add them to the liquid. Boil for 6-7 minutes. Add wine and continue heating until white foam appears. Strain everything through a cloth. Heat the glasses. Reheat the drink and serve hot.
Grog gourmands
Boil 1 liter of water. Pour tea into a heated teapot and pour boiling water over it. Let it brew. In a separate bowl, stir syrup, rum and liqueur. Wash the lemon and cut into 4 slices. Garnish the rims of 4 large glasses with lemon slices. Pour hot tea, and then rum and liqueur into glasses. Serve immediately.
Cherry grog
Let the cherry essence simmer, add the spices wrapped in cheesecloth and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
Remove the spices and pour the wine into the pan. Bring to a boil quickly. Squeeze juice from lemon. When the wine boils, add lemon juice and vodka. Place the cherries at the bottom of the glasses and pour the hot drink into the glasses. Serve immediately.
White grog
Fold and pour everything listed into a saucepan, heat over low heat (do not boil!). Heat glasses, pour hot grog into glasses and serve immediately.
American grog
Crush the cloves and boil 200 g of water. Mix lemon juice, boiling water, sugar and spices in a bowl. Then add rum. Place 15 g of butter in 2 glasses, pour the hot drink into the glasses and serve immediately.
Grog "Tart"
Pour tea into cognac or rum, mix everything well and leave at room temperature for 8-10 days. After this time, strain the infusion, add sugar, pour into a bottle and seal. This extract is subsequently used to prepare grog. To do this, put a little sugar to taste in a glass, add hot water and 2 tbsp. l. the resulting extract.
Ladies grog
A pinch, cloves, sugar, a pinch of raspberry mint. Mix until, and 15 minutes. Then 1 glass of cognac liqueur, warm up and drink wide.
Grog milk
Mix milk, brewed tea and sugar syrup or sugar and heat, without bringing to a boil, for 1 - 1.5 minutes at 100% power. Add rum and serve immediately.
Cognac grog
Place all ingredients in a glass, mix and let stand for 1-2 minutes. After this, heat in the oven for 0.5 minutes at 100% power.
Rum grog with milk.
Mix milk, tea and sugar syrup. Place the mixture on low heat. Heat the mixture for 10 minutes, stirring constantly (do not bring to a boil). Add rum and pour into cups.
Grog "Winter's Tale"
Boil water and add tea leaves to it. Let it brew, strain. Put a cube of refined sugar into the tea, pour in lemon juice, mix thoroughly, add light rum. Consume the drink hot.
Coffee grog
Brew coffee with a glass of boiling water, leave for 15-20 minutes, add red port, vodka, condensed milk, sugar, stir everything thoroughly and put on low heat. Heat without bringing to a boil. Serve this drink hot.
Grog "Milk Rivers"
2 Cut orange slices from membranes. Pour hot tea into a cup, then cognac, then hot milk, stir. Place an orange slice in each cup and serve immediately.
Grog with spices
Mix all products in a glass, insert a glass rod, heat for 2 minutes without a lid at full power, stir and serve immediately.
Grog
Heat water and sugar for 1-2 minutes in a heat-resistant glass, then stir. Add rum and lemon juice.
Grog with honey is delicious
Prepare in the same way as “Grog with cognac”, replacing powdered sugar with honey.
Cooking time 5 min.
Grog with cognac
Put powdered sugar into a heated glass, pour in cognac and add boiling water, adding a slice of lemon.
Cooking time 15 min.
Brandy grog
Pour cognac into hot strong tea, add a piece of sugar, stir and garnish with a slice of lemon
Grog "Ladies"
Mix all ingredients, heat and pour into cups.
Grog "Hunter"
Mix red wine, vodka, strong tea, lemon juice and sugar and heat over medium heat, adding a pinch of cinnamon (do not bring to a boil). Serve the grog hot.
Coffee grog
6 Pour hot (but not boiling) coffee into a heated porcelain cup, add cognac, rum and sugar syrup, stir lightly. Serve in porcelain cups with a lemon wedge in each.
Honey grog
Dissolve honey and cognac in hot water. Serve in a porcelain cup with a squeeze of lemon.
Grog milk
Mix the tea infusion with milk, sugar syrup and heat without bringing to a boil, then add rum. Serve in a porcelain cup.
Grog "Fire Tongs"
Pour wine into a saucepan, add cloves, sliced orange and lemon. Heat everything up. Place a metal spatula with a recess on the pan, place sugar on it and pour in rum. Set the soaked sugar on fire and pour rum over it all the time (preferably with a ladle) until all the melted sugar falls into the pan. Serve the cruchon hot in a heat-resistant glass.
Grog
Pour 2 glasses of good rum and 1 glass of vanilla liqueur into a glass.
Add sugar to taste and fill the glass with hot water. Stir and place a slice of lemon on top, sprinkle with a few drops of rum. Light the rum and serve while the rum is burning with a bright flame. If it’s cold outside, you’re frozen and want to warm up quickly, this is a great reason to drink grog. The recipe for grog was unwittingly invented by Admiral Edward Vernan when he ordered the sailors' portion of rum to be diluted with water and sugar so that the sailors would drink less. Today they drink a slightly different grog, the classic recipe consists of strong tea and rum. Sugar is usually added to grog, preferably brown cane sugar. This is how sailors drink grog. The recipe for grog at home is significantly different from the naval one. Grog is prepared with lemon, cloves and cinnamon and other spices. In addition, sometimes cognac is even used instead of rum. There are also recipes for grog with coffee, but the classic grog is rum and tea. Well, something else, to taste.
Coffee grog
Prepare:
- rum (Jamaican) – 40 ml
- cognac – 30 ml
- coffee (freshly brewed) – 240 ml
- water (boiled) – 50 ml
- sugar – 1 tablespoon
- lemon – 1 unit (for decoration)
You need to prepare it like this:
- Sugar must be completely dissolved in water
- Pour rum and cognac into hot coffee, sugar syrup and pour into cups. Garnish with a slice of lemon.
Try making coffee grog according to this recipe, replacing rum and cognac with red port (70 ml), and granulated sugar with condensed milk. Or add cinnamon (or allspice, cloves, nutmeg, anise, dried or fresh lemon and orange peels, etc.) to the composition. The amount of spices for grog is calculated from the amount of ¼ teaspoon per 3 glasses of coffee.
What is grog
Grog in its classic form is a hot alcoholic drink whose strength ranges between 15 and 20 degrees.
Any correct grog recipe requires boiling all its ingredients. Otherwise, you'll just end up with a grog-shaped cocktail.
The basic composition of the drink includes water, rum (mostly dark), sugar and lemon juice.
At the same time, various modifications and additions to the original version are allowed. For example, replacing sugar with honey, we get honey grog.
It is also possible to replace plain boiling water with black or green tea, coffee, juices and even milk. In addition, you can diversify the drink by adding various berries or fruits to it.
When replacing the alcoholic base, such apocryphal drinks as cognac grog or whiskey grog are obtained.
Finally, many lovers of the mentioned drink willingly add various spices to it: cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, mint, ginger, etc.
Error or something to add?
Grog "Winter"
Prepare:
- rum, cognac or vodka - 300 ml
- water – 200 ml
- sugar - 200 grams
- cherry juice - 30 ml
- black tea (bagged) - 5 grams (1 bag)
- raspberries (or raspberry jam) - 50 grams
You need to prepare it like this:
- Bring the cherry juice to a boil, add granulated sugar, add the alcoholic part and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Separately, boil water and brew tea.
- Mix both parts and let sit for about 5 minutes.
Heligoland grog
In this recipe we will add very little water (forty milliliters), and combine dark rum with red wine. As a result, we will get a very strong grog. The home recipe calls for heating the alcohol first. For sixty milliliters of wine you need to take 40 ml of rum. Let's dilute the alcohol with water. Let's put it on low heat, but like good coffee, keep it from boiling. You can heat the alcohol mixture in a water bath. Pour burnt sugar into a thick-bottomed glass. Let's pour some hot grog. Decorate the edge of the glass with a circle of lemon or orange. Let's serve a hot alcoholic cocktail with straws. This drink can be varied with liquid honey, maple syrup, and a mixture of spices, which are usually added to mulled wine.
Grog "Honey"
Prepare:
- white rum - 80 ml
- black tea (brewed) – 400 ml
- honey – 1-2 tablespoons
- lemon juice - from 1 piece (small)
- cinnamon – ½ stick
- carnations – 2 buds
You need to prepare it like this:
The tea is brewed with spices for about 10 minutes, filtered, juice, alcohol and honey are added.
Non-alcoholic grog
This is an ideal option for people who cannot tolerate alcohol and children. It will help fight colds and overcome insomnia. They usually drink it after frost or before bed. At the same time, you can drink it, unlike alcoholic options, 2 cups at a time.
This grog has a number of variations in composition. While they are prepared either by infusion or boiling, which are described just above. Therefore, we will omit the details of their preparation technologies and write for you only the components included in this or that grog.
Option 1:
- black tea (hot) – 1 glass
- cherry juice – 150 ml
- sugar – 50 grams
- cinnamon -1 stick
This grog is prepared by heating the ingredients for 10 minutes.
Option 2:
- hibiscus tea (hot) – 1 glass
- cinnamon – 1 stick
- cloves – 2 buds
- ginger – 2 pieces
- honey - to taste
This grog is prepared by heating the ingredients (without honey) and infusing them for 20 minutes. After this, honey is added, heated again and drunk.
Option 3:
- black or hibiscus tea (hot) – 2 cups
- cinnamon – 2 teaspoons
- cloves – 3-4 buds
- pepper – 3-4 peas
- lemon/orange juice – from ½ fruit
- honey – 70 grams
The spices are heated with tea for 3 minutes, the citrus juice is squeezed out, left for 30 minutes, heated again and honey is added.
Sometimes star anise (2 stars), cardamom (8 boxes), or ginger (2 pieces) are added to this grog.
But if it suddenly happens that you don’t like more than one of our recipes, prepare the grog yourself. So that your grog is non-alcoholic, choose your favorite tea, dried berries and spices. Brew them for a few minutes, add lemon, lime or orange juice (you can use slices of these fruits), honey or sugar to taste and enjoy. By adding 70-80 ml of one of your favorite alcoholic drinks, you will get alcoholic grog. It's simple.
Non-alcoholic grog recipe
In fact, non-alcoholic grog is the same compote. But it must have a pronounced spicy taste and aroma. This drink also implies receiving a large dose of vitamins.
Ingredients:
- 1 liter of water;
- 4 tbsp. l. loose leaf tea (black);
- 5 tbsp. l. sugar (To taste. In the original, sugar is not added to the grog);
- Lemon zest;
- Cinnamon stick;
- 5 cloves;
- Several black peppercorns;
- 3 star anise.
First, prepare the lemon zest. You need to carefully cut it from the fruit so that only the top (yellow) layer remains. White pulp will give the drink an unpleasant bitterness. After this, cut the zest into strips so that it boils better. There is no point in grinding it too much.
Now pour water into a container where it will boil and add the rest of the ingredients there. This must be done while the water is still cold.
After bringing the water to a boil, reduce the heat and keep the pan at a low simmer so that the vitamin C in the zest is not destroyed by the heat. After 10-15 minutes, the grog will be ready. All that remains is to strain the drink and serve it to the table. Just before serving, dissolve the honey in the container with the drink by vigorous stirring. Grog should be drunk hot or warm.
