Mulled wine

Serve warm mulled wine to your guests as they arrive or serve it later with mince pies.

Ingredients

2 cups orange juice
2 cups water
1 orange
1 lemon
3 stalks cinnamon (cinnamon sticks)
6 clove
1 cup brandy
4 tablespoons sugar

Instructions

  1. Heat gently orange juice, water, cloves and cinnamon sticks in a large saucepan until close to boiling. Add sugar and stir until dissolved.
  2. Add rind from orange and lemon -use a potato peeler to pare it. Reserve the fruits.
  3. Pour red wine and brandy. Keep on heating and remove from heat when the liquid has almost reached the boiling point, but don't let it boil. Strain the mulled wine. Discard citrus peel and cloves, keep cinnamon sticks.
  4. Ladle into a warm bowl. Add the cinnamon sticks and decorate with very thin lemon and orange slices from the fruits previously reserved.
  5. Serve in warmed glasses.
Yield
10 servings
Preparation time 10 minutes
Cooking time 10 minutes
Total time
20 minutes

Notes

Try to prepare a white mulled wine, substitute medium dry white wine for the red wine and white sugar for the brown.

You can get away very well with cheap wine for this recipe, but, while you should not employ the best wine in your collection, if you use a decent wine, it will show.

Source

British cuisine

Mulled wine is the perfect drink to go along warm mince pies with brandy butter.

very easy, drinks
wine, special occasion, holiday
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