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Beverages
and booze
Beer
Melt
all except the yeast in 6 cups of boiling water. While waiting
for this to cool, soak the caps in hot water (this helps the
bottles seal better) When the mix is tepid put yeast in a cup
with some of the mixture, allow to froth a little then add to
mix. Add cold water to make up about 16 cups. Pour into
bottles which need to be very clean. Top up to within 4cm from
top. Gently shake to mix up. Store in a warm place. Ready to
drink when the bottles are rock hard about 4 days. Refrigerate
before drinking. Open slowly as the recipe can be pretty
fizzie!! Altering the amount of sugar can avoid masses of
fizz. ONLY use plastic screw cap that have be manufactured for
fizzie drinks. Never glass either!! Great fun to make. -
Heather R, Omokoroa.
Coffee
- Make your own delicious flat white coffee for 20 cents max.
To make a large cup (300mm), put the following into a
measuring jug. Generous teaspoon of instant coffee.
Sugar/sweetener to taste.
Small pinch of salt. Half teaspoon cornflour.
Three teaspoons of powdered milk. Enough water to
mix the above together, or use milk instead of dried milk.
Mix together with a fork. Top up to 300mm.with boiling
water. Give a real good thrashing with a stick blender or
(not as good) use a hand mixer of some kind. Pour into cup
and slurp away. - Peter Cox, North Shore City.
- When making percolated coffee brew
coffee twice by leaving the coffee beans in the filter and refilling
water dispenser. Coffee is a little weaker but it goes twice as far.
D.G.
- To keep roasted coffee
beans and grounds fresh after opening the packet, store in
an air tight container (glass or ceramic) and store in the
freezer.
General
- I
dont drink fizzy drinks, only water, 2 cups of tea and
I glass of wine a day! J.O. Christchurch
Home brew
- Home brew - My method on how I
get three dozen large bottles of beer instead of
two and a half dozen out of a can of beer concentrate,
after dissolving concentrate and dextrose in hot water and
it is in the fermenter. I fill the fermenter with cold
water to just above the hand grips that are recessed into
the sides of the barrel (my fermenter is about 20 years
old I presume they are still made the same) I don't
measure any quantities. When beer is ready to bottle I add
150ml or for oldies like me 5oz of water to three dozen
large bottles and a rounded tea spoon of sugar to each
bottle. Not only do you get 6 extra bottles it lowers the
alcoholic content and makes a much more pleasant drink. I
have had brews tested from time to time and they
usually come out about 4.2 percent using this
method. Good brewing. - Ossie,
Taihape.
Milk
We have used milk powder since we stopped milking cows 25
years ago. We
used the skim milk powder but now we have recently changed
to buying the whole milk powder as it is the same price.
We water it down to the consistency/colour of skim
milk and voila, the saving is great....it goes twice as
far for the same price! - Elizabeth, Whangarei.
- I have been using milk powder now for everything for the
past 15years and I found that you have to make the milk at
least half an hour before you use it so it gets cold. How
I introduced it to my family was that I started out with
normal milk in a 2 litre container and just gradually
introduced the milk powder to the normal milk and over a
period of time it was just milk powder made into milk. If
I can remember right I think it took about a month. We
found that the best powder is low fat. It costs me around
30.00 per month for milk compared to 75.00 per month. That
is a healthy saving. - Kate Morrison, Tauranga.
- Milk powder. Mix it the night before and leave in the fridge.
I use the green milk (skim) and it mixes very easily - so
long as it is added to the nearly
full amount of
water. Do NOT use the make a paste method. - PJH, Waverley.
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Thank
you for this report. It is very interesting. I usually buy
the 3 litre Budget milk at Pak n Save (our only
supermarket). But lately have been buying the 2 litre
because 3 litres is too hard to pour from. Two litres is
only about 5c per litre more and I am willing to pay that
for the easier to use size. - S.L.
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For
about 30 years, we've been mixing up our own milk from
milk powder. I buy it at $7.19 (currently) per 1kg. This
mixes up to around 10 litres of milk. We have 2 x
2litre lidded jugs, and as we empty one, it is thoroughly
washed and new milk made. We never run out and we save
money too. We had a large family of 11 children, so
swapped to milk powder, when we reached 12 old glass
bottles a day, to save space in the fridge. We soon
realised we were saving money. Although now, we are
down to a small household of 3, the habit is so ingrained,
we can't ever envisage changing back. - S.D.
- Milk powder is about half the price
of fresh milk. Make it up at least half an hour ahead and the
flavour is not "gritty". G.B.
- I found that living on my own, and not being a great milk
user, fresh milk often
tended to not be used by the end of the week; so now buy
full cream milk powder or "long life" milk when
on special. Both are cheaper than fresh milk and I can use
the powder for smaller amounts, and open up a packet of
UHT when I know I'm going to use more. I have a stock so
of course only buy when they are on special. - Corajean,
Howick.
- For the last twenty
two years, my husband are I have used skim milk powder
instead of buying milk. It works out at present 95c a
litre. As we drink a lot of milk this is a big saving. -
H.P., Bay of Islands.
- Instead of buying milk in plastic bottles etc I buy
milk powder and make it up in the amount needed at the time. This
saves any waste. A half to one teaspoon of milk powder well mixed in
is the right amount for a cup of tea or coffee and nobody knows it is
not whole milk. -Thistle,
Waikanae
- I buy 1 litre full
powder milk. You can't taste the difference. Works out to
be $1.15 litre. I no longer waste my money buying plastic
bottle milk and it lowers recycling all those bottles. - Rene,
Brooklyn.
- I was given this tip many years ago. I
always buy 1kg packets of skim milk powder, any brand , whichever is the
cheapest at the time, which makes up to 10 litres of milk and unless someone
sees you make it they do not know the difference. The cost of 1 kg pkts can
get as low as $9.99. The last time I purchased some was at Woolworths home
brand at $10.95. The beauty of milk powder is that you can store it for a long
time and do not have to run to the dairy every day . NB I am talking about
SKIM milk powder. I would not drink milk made from whole milk powder. Try it
and you may be pleasantly surprised. -Reader, Katikati
- Oily Rag
ed says: Talking
about milk - I was chatting to a dairy farmer the other day and told him about
the survey we are running on this site. We had a very good discussion about
milk related matters. Did you know that it takes about 12 litres of milk to
make a kg of milk solids? So if the farmer is receiving $5.10 a kg of butterfat
(which is the current forecast for Fonterra) the farmer is getting about 43
cents a litre for milk. That means the farmers share of the price of a bottle
of milk is 86 cents. The rest is divided amongst the dairy company to tanker
the milk to the factory and process it, to the distributors who pick up the
milk at the factory and deliver it to the retail stores, and the retailers.
When I asked him who is making the most, he said, "well some retailers
are selling 2 litres for between $2.50 and $2.80, and making money. Most retailers are selling
milk at around $3.40. What does that tell you? I think his point was that
some retailers are creaming it... or milking it... or however you want to
describe it.
Tea
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Jan from Deniliqin in Australia
has a question. "Hopeful of obtaining a recipe for Chai Tea as now that
I'm a Pensioner I find Liptons box of 6 sachets expensive, thanks in
advance, sunshine smiles to all from 'down under'. If you have a recipe for
Jan please click
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SJ from
Dunedin replies: "I love Chai tea. This link was sent to me . It has
plenty of ideas." Click here for the link
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- Tea bags cost twice as much as loose
tea. G.B.
- Hes
a way to save while having a cuppa tea. Loose tea is
cheaper than tea bags, but even those spendthrifts who use
tea bags can save by using it over and over and over again
(although I must admit that by the fourth time the tea is
getting a bit weak but think of the savings!) In our
house it is a sport (not quite one that would gain entry
to the Olympics but we are working on it!) although
visitors sometimes lose their sense of humour when we ask,
cup of tea? - anonymous
- If making tea for more than one person use a tea pot. You won't need the
equivalent of one tea-bag per person. - M.N.
Wine
- Make your own wine for $1-$2 per bottle.
It's easy and it's fun! And it's delicious!- kqt,
Auckland.
- For a
good website with wine making recipes see
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