Green Tea Ginger Sparkler Recipes

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• In a large saucepan, combine pear nectar, pears, ginger and sugar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 15-20 minutes or until pears are softened. Cool., Place mixture in a blender; cover and process until smooth. Press mixture through a fine-mesh strainer. Stir in vodka. Pour 1-1/2 ounces into each champagne flute or cocktail glass. Top with 4 ounces champagne. Serve with pear slices.

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• In a large bowl, muddle fresh ginger, mint leaves, and lime juice. Stir in ginger beer. Strain into a pitcher, pressing down on solids. Stir in seltzer. Serve over ice with lime wheels, more ginger slices, and mint sprigs.

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• Dissolve green tea powder into hot water.
• Pour over ice and stir to cool.
• Add ginger ale and honey to taste.
• Stir until combined.

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• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• Mix together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves, and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl.
• Soften butter or margarine in microwave. Mix it together with molasses and eggs.
• Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients. Dough will be very dense.
• Pick up tsp sized ball of dough and roll into a ball in your hands.
• Roll rounded ball into extra sugar to coat.
• Place balls of dough on baking sheet.
• Bake at 350 F for 15 minute Cookies may seem crisp when they come out of the oven, but once removed from cookie sheet and stored they should be soft.

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• Put the green tea bags into a heatproof container and pour in 1 quart boiling water. Let steep until it comes to room temperature, about 1 hour. Remove the tea bags and discard.
• While the tea is steeping, in a saucepan over medium-high heat, bring 1 cup water, the sugar, and ginger to a boil. Stir to dissolve the sugar, remove from the heat, and allow to cool to room temperature, about 1 hour. Store the tea and ginger simple syrup in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
• To serve, fill glasses with ice and pour in the tea. Sweeten, to taste, with the ginger simple syrup. Garnish with a slice of ginger. For the adults, top each with 1/2 cup prosecco, if desired.

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• Combine the sugar, 1 cup water and the ginger in a saucepan over medium-low heat; allow to come to a gentle simmer, stirring until the sugar has completely dissolved.
• Remove from the heat and let the ginger syrup cool to room temperature. Strain the syrup and discard the ginger.
• Pop open the bubbly and grab a couple of champagne flutes. Divide the pomegranate molasses between the flutes, then add about 2 tablespoons of the ginger syrup to each. Top with the bubbly. Clink glasses and enjoy! (Store the remaining ginger syrup in the fridge. You can drizzle it into seltzer the rest of the week.)

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• Add ginger slices, grated ginger, and brown sugar to 4 to 5 cups water and bring to a boil in a saucepan for approximately 20 minutes. Strain and serve immediately.

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• In a pitcher, mix all ingredients.
• Serve over ice and garnish with an orange wedge.

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• Combine ginger and tea concentrate while still hot and refrigerate for at least three hours.
• Strain and discard ginger.
• Pour concentrate and ginger ale into ice filled glasses.
• Makes 4 servings.
• * For recipes that call for tea concentrates: steep 12 tea bags in 4 cups of boiling water. Before removing, squeeze the tea bags to get all of the liquid. Cool the concentrate in the refrigerator at least 3 hours and keep up to 2 weeks.

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• Melt the chocolate in a double boiler. Meanwhile, in a small pan, simmer the oil, chopped ginger, lime zest and honey for 2 to 3 minutes and then strain, pressing the ginger to remove any excess liquid. Stir the butter into the melted chocolate, followed by the honey mixture. Fold in the candied ginger and spread on a foil-lined 9-by-11-inch tray. Refrigerate until it hardens. Break up the bar and sprinkle with green tea powder. Serve chilled.