Are the cold nights bothering you, keeping you huddled up in your bed? Are your friends complaining and calling you a spoil sport, as you abstain from parties and gatherings? Don’t worry, as we have the perfect way to warm you up these winters, with a cozy and hot toasty mug of mulled wine. Does that make you feel better? Mulled wine is a vine version of a classic hot toddy, served as a traditional holiday treat in world’s many old countries. They have been warming people since ages with their sweetened, spiced and slightly heated flavor and aroma. Being the best alternative to traditional coffees, ciders and toddy’s, mulled wine is the ideal thing to drive you out of your shell. So, throw away your quilt and get ready to prove the world that nothing can beat the heat within you.
Ingredients
- 1 bottle red wine
- 60g demerara sugar or vanilla sugar or honey
- 1 cinnamon stick
- Grated nutmeg
- 1 orange, halved
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 60ml oz sloe or damson gin or brandy (optional)
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger or 2 tbsp ground ginger (allspice can be used as a substitute)
Recipe
- Pour the wine in a saucepan with the orange, sugar, bay leaf and the spices.
- Heat the ingredients gently until the sugar or honey gets dissolved. You can add or reduce the sugar quantity according to your own taste.
- Put off the heat, and pour sloe or damson gin or brandy constantly stirring it, if you are using it.
- Strain into heatproof glasses and serve steaming hot.
