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Nards Barley

Here is something I like to drink while practicing my conversational Spanish. Does anyone have a recipe they would like recommend. I have never made it but found this one. When I have ordered it, it is usually a red color, which I am not sure jives with the ingredients below.

Canelazo is a traditional spiced hot drink from the highlands in Ecuador. The original canelazo recipe is made by boiling water with cinnamon and sugar or panela, and then it is mixed with a local sugar cane alcohol called punta or aguardiente.


6 cups of water
    8 cinnamon sticks
    1 cup of sugar or grated panela
    Aguardiente to taste (Zhumir)

Instructions

    Combine all the ingredients, except for the aguardiente, in a medium sized pot.
    Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 30-40 minutes. To make the fast or cheater version you can simply boil it for 10-15 minutes.
    Mix in the aguardiente and serve immediately

Nards Barley

At the website where I obtained the recipe, the editor posted the following comment in response to the question about the color.

In Cuenca they have a drink called Sangoracha, it is reddish pink and is made with aguardiente or punta and a bunch of different herbs/flowers. Sangoracha is the name of the flower that gives it the red color. It is like an alcoholic version of the horchata lojana drink.


And in case you are interested in what horchata lojana is here is the link from the same website

http://laylita.com/recipes/2011/11/17/horchata-lojana/

Nards Barley

Got to get me some of this

http://www.laylita.com/recipes/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/horchata-prep-2.jpg

So I can make this

http://www.laylita.com/recipes/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/horchata-prep-6.jpg

But with a touch of this

http://www.gringosabroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bottle_zhumir.jpg

Nards Barley

Here is a young lady at work making Horchata. Drink Up!

http://www.eltiempo.com.ec/fotos-cuenca-ecuador/ecuador/t1_1342146457.jpg

Nards Barley

I received some conflicting information about what I was drinking at that restaurant. There is no doubt that the restaurant calls it Canelazo, but some native older women that Vinny66 knows thinks it may have been "El draque" that we were drinking.

That may be right. Here is an article in Spanish from the El Mercurio about the drink, which still includes the same booze as shown above.

Hemeroteca Vitual
El draque
Fecha:2009-03-18 00:00:00

Quienes hemos nacido y vivido en Cuenca, sabemos lo que es un "draque", esa bebida que durante las noches frías entona el cuerpo y el espíritu, su preparación es conocida por todos, se hace hervir agua, canela, naranjilla, azúcar y una vez lista se añade un buen tanto de aguardiente ¿Cuál fue su origen? ...

María Rosa Crespo

Quienes hemos nacido y vivido en Cuenca, sabemos lo que es un "draque", esa bebida que durante las noches frías entona el cuerpo y el espíritu, su preparación es conocida por todos, se hace hervir agua, canela, naranjilla, azúcar y una vez lista se añade un buen tanto de aguardiente ¿Cuál fue su origen? Cuenta una leyenda que nació en un viejo barrio bohemio de Cuenca situado a orillas del río Tomebamba, lugar en el cual se construiría más tarde el hospital "San Vicente de Paúl" y junto a éste la antigua Escuela de Medicina, durante la época de la Independencia llegó a Cuenca un soldado inglés, visitó el alegre barrio y entre copa y copa se le desató la lengua contando mil y un historias, entre ellas las aventuras del pirata Francis Drake, sus ataques los galeones españoles cuando se dirigían hasta Europa cargados con los tesoros de América, tenía su guarida en la isla caribeña de Jamaica y durante las noches junto a sus seguidores bebía grandes cantidades de ron preparado con agua caliente, especias y azúcar. El soldado inglés hizo amistad morlacos, les enseñó a preparar la bebida del pirata, desde ese entonces el barrio empezó a conocerse como el barrio de Jamaica y la bebida pasó nuestra lengua con el nombre de "draque".


http://www.elmercurio.com.ec/hemeroteca … cia=102075

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