Recipes
Mulled Wine
serves 30
Ingredients
- 5 bottles of full-bodied red wine such as claret
- 4 pints of water
- 20 cloves
- 16 cardamom pods, crushed
- 5 cm fresh ginger, sliced
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 300g caster sugar
- 3 oranges
- 2 lemons
- 200g raisins
- 200g blanched almonds
Equipment
- large saucepan
- piece of muslin
You want to let the wine and all the flavours marinate for a good few hours before you drink this (overnight if possible). Pour the wine into a saucepan and add the water. Place the cloves, cardamom pods and ginger in the muslin, wrap them up and tie a knot to keep them in (or use elastic bands). Add this spice wrap to the wine along with the sugar and cinnamon. Using a peeler, peel the zest of the oranges and lemons and add to the mixture along with the raisins. Leave to marinate.
Leave yourself about an hour to warm up the wine. Do this on a hob but make sure you do not boil the mixture. This would mean all the alcohol would evaporate which no-one wants! Serve in glass punch cups, small wine glasses or even teacups making sure you get some raisins in each. Finally add a couple of almonds to each glass and hand out to eager guests!