Autumn recipe: Spiced Autumn punch

spiced autumn punch

 

 

serves 16

ingredients:

• 2 oranges
• 8 whole cloves
• 1.5L (2 1/2 pints) apple juice
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 4 tablespoons honey
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 500ml (17 fl oz.) pineapple juice

directions
prep: 20 minutes
cook:40 minutes
ready in: 1 hour

1. preheat oven to 180 C / gas mark 4. Stud the whole oranges with cloves and bake for 30 minutes
2. in a large saucepan, combine the apple juice and cinnamon stick. Bring to the boil and reduce heat to medium and simmer 5 minutes.
3. serve hot in a punch bowl with the 2 baked clove-studded oranges floating on top.

I love this quick and easy recipe that gets me into the autumn mood very quickly. Its so simple and quite fast to do and would be great for parties or even just in front of the fire on an autumn evening.

enjoy :-)

all rights and credit goes to the creator of this recipe.

autumn recipe:roast pumpkins with apple and cinnamon

I love pumpkins, they really make up a large part of Autumn, especially through Halloween but I always seem to overcompensate and buy more pumpkins than I need (I know, who can have too many pumpkins). eventually I run out of ideas to carve into the pumpkins to make them scary for my visitors though so I love it when I have recipe's lying around where I don't just use the insides, I use the actual pumpkin itself. its a great way of recycling the pumpkin after Halloween is over as well as all of those wonderful pumpkin faces just get thrown in the bin.


Roast pumpkins with apple and cinnamon

ingredients
serves: 4

• 4 small pumpkins, tops sliced off and seeds removed
• 450g (16 oz. ) apple sauce
• 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• salt and freshly ground lack pepper to taste

directions
prep: 15 minutes
cook: 45 minutes
ready in: 1 hour

1.  preheat oven to 160 c/ gas mark 3. lightly grease a medium baking dish
2. in a small bowl, mix apple sauce, cinnamon, salt and pepper. spoon 1/4 of the mixture into the bowl of each pumpkin.
3. place pumpkins in the prepared baking dish. cover with aluminium foil and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes, or until tender.

all rights and credit goes to the creator of this recipe. enjoy :-)

Autumn posts

I will be posting only Autumn posts from the end of August onwards. Feel free to leave comments of suggestions for blog posts of you want anything in particular :-)

Autumn/Fall mood

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