AlisonM
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This recipe started out as mulled wine, but got rather adulterated by a Gluwein recipe while we were living in Germany. It's lethal.
Ingredients:
1 bottle good red wine
1 glass port
Juice of an orange, keep the carcass, you'll need it
Juice of a lemon, ditto
Nutmeg, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mace, Sugar, all to your taste. If you like it spicy add more, but I reckon half a dozen cloves is enough
1 wheelbarrow
Stick the cloves into the skin of the orange and the lemon. Crush the other spices. Put all the ingredients into a steel pan and heat slowly, stirring gently till it comes to a simmer. DO NOT BOIL. Continue to simmer gently for five minutes, strain and serve.
Use the wheelbarrow to carry your friends home.
You can do the same with cider, just leave out the port.
I love this stuff, it smells like Christmas. Speaking of which:
A spicy tree decoration.
Requirements:
An orange, satsuma or mandarin
Some cloves
A length of ribbon
Tie the ribbon securely around the orange, leaving enough at the top to tie it to your tree. Stick cloves into the skin all over the fruit. After a day or two you'll be able to smell the orange and cloves all over the room. It'll last a couple of weeks at least.
Ingredients:
1 bottle good red wine
1 glass port
Juice of an orange, keep the carcass, you'll need it
Juice of a lemon, ditto
Nutmeg, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mace, Sugar, all to your taste. If you like it spicy add more, but I reckon half a dozen cloves is enough
1 wheelbarrow
Stick the cloves into the skin of the orange and the lemon. Crush the other spices. Put all the ingredients into a steel pan and heat slowly, stirring gently till it comes to a simmer. DO NOT BOIL. Continue to simmer gently for five minutes, strain and serve.
Use the wheelbarrow to carry your friends home.
You can do the same with cider, just leave out the port.
I love this stuff, it smells like Christmas. Speaking of which:
A spicy tree decoration.
Requirements:
An orange, satsuma or mandarin
Some cloves
A length of ribbon
Tie the ribbon securely around the orange, leaving enough at the top to tie it to your tree. Stick cloves into the skin all over the fruit. After a day or two you'll be able to smell the orange and cloves all over the room. It'll last a couple of weeks at least.
