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BEVERAGES RECIPES
Fresh Lemonade
Hot Mint Tea
English Tea
Turkish Coffee
| Israeli Arab Restaurant - Turkish Coffee Bar |
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| Abu Ghosh - Just outside of Jerusalem |
Fresh Lemonade
Ingredients:
3 large fresh lemons
3/4 cup sugar
1 gallon or large pitcher of water (2 liters)
sliced lemons
Optional: mint sprigs
Procedure:
Squeeze lemon juice and strain the juice into the pitcher. Add sugar and water, stir well until sugar is incorporated.
Taste to adjust flavor. Add lemon slices and sprigs of mint, if desired. Just before serving, add ice cubes to pitcher.
Mint Tea
Ingredients:
2 tblsps of Black Tea
Sprigs of Mint
Procedure:
Fill a tea pot with hot water and set aside. Bring fresh water to a boil. Empty out tea pot of hot water and put in black
tea, filling it up with boiling hot water. Put a tea cozy on tea pot or towel, and leave it set for about 2-3 minutes
for weaker tea.
Meanwhile, add a sprig of mint in glass tea mug. Fill tea mug with hot tea and serve.
English Tea
There is a strong British influence throughout the Middle East from
their days of the Mandate Period. That is why so many of the Arab and Jewish population enjoy a good cup of hot English tea.
I worked for Derek Prince the last three years of his life as
his personal assistant here in Jerusalem. He lived right next door to my apartment building in the south of Jerusalem. Derek
was a true English gentleman, schooled in Cambridge, England, and was an amazing Biblical, Greek and Hebrew scholar.
He was quite a tea drinker and it was necessary for me to learn to make a "prahpah" cup of tea, serving it in the exact English
way!
Ingredients:
1 heaping tblsp of good English Tea (i.e., Earl Grey) - 1 tblsp per person, plus 1 tblsp for the pot
Large Tea pot, filled with very hot water
Boiling water
Procedure:
Fill tea pot with very hot water and set aside. Boil a kettle of water. Empty out tea pot, add the tea, and pour in boiling
water. Cover and wrap with a tea cozy or towel and set aside for 4-5 minutes.
Set out a nice serving tray of china cups and saucers, creamer, sugar, small silver spoons, plate of lemon slices.
Serve the tea in front of your guests from the serving table, asking which your guest prefers: milk or lemon and
sugar. Pour in the milk first, then the hot tea. Offer your guests sweet tea biscuits, and a variety of dainty simple
sandwiches.
Turkish Coffee
Turkish coffee is a strong coffee made with the darkest roast available
(French, or Italian roasts). You can buy the coffee and grind it to the finest setting possible. It is brewed with sugar and
cooked in a special pot which can be found at specialty Middle Eastern stores.
Ingredients:
4 tsps Turkish Coffee (very finely ground)
4 demitasse cups of water
4 tsps sugar
Procedure:
Using a small Turkish coffee pot (or substitute small saucepan), put in the water, turkish coffee and sugar and bring
to a rolling boil.
Take the pot off the fire until the boiling stops (few seconds) and place back on the fire, doing this a total of 3 times.
Take off the fire and lift the pot high about the cups, carefully tipping the pot to stream the coffee into the cup (takes
a little practice). Pour a little into each cup, filling each cup up, leaving the grounds in the pot.
Serve with sticky and sweet dessert treats.
Serves 4.
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