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Canelazo

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.

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

Instructions

聽 聽 Combine all the ingredients, except for the aguardiente, in a medium sized pot.
聽 聽 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.
聽 聽 Mix in the aguardiente and serve immediately

See also
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

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

http://www.eltiempo.com.ec/fotos-cuenca-ecuador/ecuador/t1_1342146457.jpg
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 fr铆as entona el cuerpo y el esp铆ritu, su preparaci贸n es conocida por todos, se hace hervir agua, canela, naranjilla, az煤car y una vez lista se a帽ade un buen tanto de aguardiente 驴Cu谩l fue su origen? ...

Mar铆a Rosa Crespo

Quienes hemos nacido y vivido en Cuenca, sabemos lo que es un "draque", esa bebida que durante las noches fr铆as entona el cuerpo y el esp铆ritu, su preparaci贸n es conocida por todos, se hace hervir agua, canela, naranjilla, az煤car y una vez lista se a帽ade un buen tanto de aguardiente 驴Cu谩l fue su origen? Cuenta una leyenda que naci贸 en un viejo barrio bohemio de Cuenca situado a orillas del r铆o Tomebamba, lugar en el cual se construir铆a m谩s tarde el hospital "San Vicente de Pa煤l" y junto a 茅ste la antigua Escuela de Medicina, durante la 茅poca de la Independencia lleg贸 a Cuenca un soldado ingl茅s, visit贸 el alegre barrio y entre copa y copa se le desat贸 la lengua contando mil y un historias, entre ellas las aventuras del pirata Francis Drake, sus ataques los galeones espa帽oles cuando se dirig铆an hasta Europa cargados con los tesoros de Am茅rica, ten铆a su guarida en la isla caribe帽a de Jamaica y durante las noches junto a sus seguidores beb铆a grandes cantidades de ron preparado con agua caliente, especias y az煤car. El soldado ingl茅s hizo amistad morlacos, les ense帽贸 a preparar la bebida del pirata, desde ese entonces el barrio empez贸 a conocerse como el barrio de Jamaica y la bebida pas贸 nuestra lengua con el nombre de "draque".


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