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Die Entstehung meines neuen Buches, Schümli Pflümli & Co.
Hi, I'm Andie.
I live near the Swiss Alps, in Bern, and I love not only melting cheese, but all kinds of Swiss cooking.
Hi, I'm Andie.
I live near the Swiss Alps, in Bern, and I love not only melting cheese, but all kinds of Swiss cooking.
All tagged swiss drinks
Die Entstehung meines neuen Buches, Schümli Pflümli & Co.
This Bowle, the German version of punch, is full of strawberries, mint and elderflower.
A nog-adjacent, custardy drink where the booze is already included in the bottle.
As my intrepid husband Sam knows, there’s no business like sloe business.
Whipped Coffee, or Dalgona coffee, is the viral hit of the lockdown, and it has two connections to Switzerland.
Honigmilch is a kind of cure-all in parts of Switzerland, with benefits ranging from sleeping better and lowering blood pressure, to curing a cold or reducing anxiety.
I’m delighted to introduce my friend Friedrich Studer, who wrote this guest post on how to make a perfect Schwarze, boozy coffee from the Entlebuch.
The Swiss have some potent elixirs for when they want to make a match. Two of the best are the cherry-flavoured liqueur Röteli, from canton Graubünden, and Brächere Brönnts, a golden caramel schnapps from the Emmental.
My grandmother, like many Swiss, made Milchkaffee (strong, milky coffee) for every breakfast and dinner.
Throw some ice cream into a kalti Ovo, blend, and you’ve got a malty milkshake. Or double up your malt intake by adding a dark beer to the mix with a malt on malt float.
After a hard day of breaking flax, there’s no better reward than this traditional caramel schnapps.
Adventures in making sloe gin, a guest post by my husband Sam, in which he reveals our household motto: as long as it’s plummy, it’s bound to be yummy.
Of course the best kirsch should be drunk alone, however there are a wealth of drinks, like this Kirsch Sour, that could be made with less exclusive varieties (I know everyone who has ever made cheese fondue has a bottle in their liquor cabinet).
Green walnuts from the verdant valleys of Ticino meet the original green fairy in this cocktail that tastes like a bag of liquorice allsorts.
A cookie made with Nocino, a bittersweet liqueur made from green walnuts and particularly enjoyed in Ticino.
The milky green Suissesse is creamy and refreshing and makes an excellent brunch drink (or hair of the dog).
Swap out Campari for Appenzeller Alpenbitter for a twist on this classic cocktail.
This cocktail uses two quintessentially Swiss drinks: Rivella, Switzerland's milk based soda pop, and Graübunden's favourite spirit, Röteli.
High on a Walliser mountain is the tiny community of Mund, who harvest no more than five kilos per year. Saffron grows from crocus flowers, each bloom yielding only three thin scarlet threads. It takes over a hundred flowers to make a single gram, which can cost upwards of 30 francs.
