The alpine skiing slops are famous all over the world. Why? Mostly because of the warming and tipsy making hot beverages, such as the common Glühwein and also the Jagatee. Picture this! You and your group of friends are skiing, having a blast on the slops at around 1500 m altitude, and after some time you decide to take a break in an inn. The mountain peaks are covered with snow outside, the air is chilled and hard to breath, its time to warm up those bones from inside! The Lounge of the inn is warmed up by the fire place, the wood is cracking in the flames and there are a bunch of other guests chatting loudly in all kinds of languages. You and your people make yourself comfortable and are about to order. The waitress, dressed in a local Trachten dress, comes over with a big smile ready to take the first orders and suggests a hot warming tea which she calls Jagatee.
No doubt you are all game and end up with the Black boozy tea. A sip and you can taste a combination of flavors. The first thing you will recognize is the Rum and you will swear that some type of spice is included and some black tea, but that’s about it. You are trying to make out more ingredients, yet you give up quickly and let yourself go. You and your friends are obviously enjoying it and you order another round, and another and most probably another one until you don’t even remember anymore how many rounds you had.
Yes, the Jagatee is smooth, it seems just like any other drink but it will take you into another world, that I can guarantee you! The “secrete” little drink mixture turned you all into tipsy happy people, without that you realized what was happening. The next day you will try to remember the drinks name but non of you can, it was one hell of a hot alcoholic beverage!
Jagatee means Hunter’s tea and Jaga is the local Tyrolean word for Jäger in German. My conclusion is that in the old times Hunter’s used to have a Jagatee before going out into the windy and cold wild and taking down some forest animals. We have a local dark Rum in Austria called Stroh and together with some red wine and local fruit Schnapps they form the alcoholic base of the drink. The Jagatee is a well kept Tyrolean and Bavarian recipe and non of the locals there will like to share the recipe. You will be surprised to know that the Jagatee also includes Oranges. Today I am willing to share the recipe with the world, but psshht don’t tell anyone!
- 600 milliliter water
- 2 Tablespoon Black tea leafs
- 5 Cloves
- 1 Cinnamon Stick
- 1 small Orange sliced
- 300 milliliter red Wine
- 60 milliliter dark Rum
- 60 milliliter Schnapps (I used Plum)
- Sugar to your liking
- Add the water to a pot and heat it up. Throw in the tea leafs, cloves, cinnamon stick and orange slices.
- Pour in the Wine, Rum and Schnapps. Add sugar to your liking and cook it for about 5 minutes.
- Strain the Jagatee before serving it hot!
Ingredients
- 600 milliliter water
- 2 Tablespoon Black tea leafs
- 5 Cloves
- 1 Cinnamon Stick
- 1 small Orange sliced
- 300 milliliter red Wine
- 60 milliliter dark Rum
- 60 milliliter Schnapps (I used Plum)
- Sugar to your liking
Instructions
- Add the water to a pot and heat it up. Throw in the tea leafs, cloves, cinnamon stick and orange slices.
- Pour in the Wine, Rum and Schnapps. Add sugar to your liking and cook it for about 5 minutes.
- Strain the Jagatee before serving it hot!
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This tea is soo interesting! I so want to try it!
Love the look of that tea especially with rum in it.
Helene, vielleicht zu Hause ist doch die best?
zuhause goa? ^.^
I love the way you took all your readers into another world before revealing the secret drink this post is about
It really made me think of snowy mountains and icy slopes and warm cafes… beautiful! And i can just imagine how wonderful this spicy, boozy sweet tea would be in such weather! Cant wait to try it out… now if only Bombay has cold enough winters!!
A wonderful boozy tea…just the right one for the cold weather!
What a delicious way to warm up from the inside out! And you reminded me of the fun times skiing with my friends
What a fun recipe! I’ve heard of hot tea drinks with booze, but have never had one. You make it sound so interesting! And the recipe certainly looks tasty. Good stuff – thanks.
Oh yes – I’ve been there, done that!
Gotta love those lounges at the bottom of the ski slopes. If someone brought me this drink, I would have a hard time leaving. What a deliciously warming drink! Great spices and an interesting mixture of spirits. Plum schnapps is a new for me. I’m going to have to look that one up. Great post Helene!