Well as promised… here is your gift for celebrating Around The Table’s birthday with me and a special Christmas gift! But first, grab a mug of that cranberry tea (recipe below) and snuggle in by the fire or under a fuzzy blanket to read a holiday story! Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
In a dutch oven filled with the quart of water, bring water to a boil then add cranberries. Cover pot and let all the berries burst. This should take about 10 minutes. Using an aditional large stock pot, place strainer over stock pot and drain cranberries reserving the juice.
Add to juice-
1 qt water
¾ cup cinnamon candies
1 ½ cup sugar
12 whole cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
Simmer 7 minutes, drain using dutch oven again so as to reserve juice. Return juice to stock pot.
Add to juice-
6 oz. frozen orange juice from concentrate
6 oz. frozen lemonade from concentrate
3 qrt water
Simmer 15 minutes to blend flavors. Serve hot. Your house will be filled with a glorious smell of Christmas spices!
This is Me
Hi, I’m Cyndi! I am a wife to a wonderful God-fearing man for almost twenty years. I am a mom to an ambitious comedic eighteen-year-old son and a spirited fun-loving sixteen-year-old daughter. I love to cook, create anything I can think of to make, talk and visit with friends and even strangers, and of course I love to write. Along with the writing, I love to read what other people write as well. I would love to live in the south somewhere but for now I live more in the suburbs of a town in Michigan. Oh yeah… and I’m almost blind. This means that I have to do things a little differently. It takes a little more time and a little more patience to get things done, but they get done. I was told of my eye disease when I was nine years old. At forty-four, they still cannot diagnose what I have for certain. However, I won’t sit still while they try and figure it out. Each day brings different challenges and some of the same as well. Navigating new territory is the most difficult thing for me to do, but I refuse to be held back and take the chance on missing out on an exciting new adventure. My bucket list holds adventures like parasailing, visiting Ireland, having at least one book published, and I’m sure there are more that I haven’t listed yet. Painting word pictures is my therapy and sanctuary. I use life as my brushes and paint. Lite me a candle, put on the spa music and a-writing I will go. Come on this journey with me, I hope you can find some new colors you like.
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