Jugo de jamaica desde Mexico!!

The climate became lower,

and it is so cold today.

While this temperature last, I want to drink something hot drink!

However, today's post is related to cold drink good for the summer.

During this summer holidays,

I went to the Mexico as a volunteer for 2 weeks.

It was so wonderful experience for me.

It was also for the first time to go there,

so I bought a plenty of souvenirs

for my family, relatives, and friends.

So I totally forgot buying my favourite juice for myself!

That IS "Flor de Jamaica".

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It is written in all Spanish.

so it was a little bit hard to read the manual.

Jamaica (read "hamaica") juice is hugely popular in Mexico.

For inspance,

If you buy some set menu at the restaurant,

you can choose jamaica juice

from the some choices as well as japan.

Jamaica is Spanish name,

In English it is called "hibiscus"!!

Its taste is very sweet by a great amount of suger,

but its natural flavour is sour.

Oh, its tase is very simillar to acerola!

Yes, that is the best expression for the taste of jamaica juice.

I have read somewhere that

jamaica is good for your tired eyes.

Its sour taste seems actually good to reflesh, I guess.

I searched how to buy jamaica flower in Japan,

but I couldn't find same one nowhere...

however you can buy "Hibiscus tea" on the internet.

Jamaica is exactly the hibisucus

so you might make Mexican jamaica juice using it.

I strongly recommend to make jamaica juice once.

Or you need to go to Mexico to drink real one!

Anyway, I immediately begun to make it.

The promblem was Spanish manual...

I started from translating it,

then I tried to make it!!

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"Jugo de Hamaica (Jamaica Juice)"

１. Prepare the flower of jamaica as much as you want to make. You can get lots of hamaica juice from a little amount of the jamaica flower.

2. Wash the jamaica flower with cold water. You don't need to wash it too much, and you will be surprised the colour of the water after washing jamaica. It's wine red!!

3. Preapre the hot water that is 1 to 10 times amount of the prepared jamaica flower.                                                  4. Boil the folwer with hot water for 10 minutes.

5. Filter the boiled flower. You can obtain dark red liquid.

6. Put a plenty of sugar (as you like) into the filtered liquid.

7. Then put the cold water into the jamaica liquid to make it weakened.

8. Completion! You can adjust the taste as you like. If you like sweeter one, you need a lot of suger, or if you like sour one, you ought to use less sugar. The amount of the water also deside the thickness of the juice.

<Ingredients>

*Jamaica Flower ... As much as you want to make

*Water ... About 1 to 10 times of the amount of the jamaica flower

*Sugar ... Plenty (as much as you like)

After I made it,

I remembered the memories of Mexico...

I want to back to Mexico!!

Anyway, you can enjoy Mexican flavour in you house,

so try to make it once.

You can be fascinated the Mexico!!