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Mulled Wine

#DF #GF #vegan #drinks #easy

Ingredients

• 1.5 litres of red wine (2 bottles)
• 2 large oranges
• orange juice
• ½ cup dark brown sugar
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 9 whole cloves
• 4 cardamom pods, slightly crushed
• brandy (optional; St. Rémy VSOP is a good cheap brandy for this)

Steps

• Zest the two oranges.
• Juice the oranges.
• Add the orange zest, the cloves and the cardamom pods to a tea infuser.
• Add the wine, juice from the oranges, and the tea infuser to a pot over high heat until it's about to boil. (Ideally, don't let it boil.)
• Remove the tea infuser.
• Reduce the heat to low and taste it. If it is bitter, add half a cup of orange juice and/or another 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Simmer for about 30 minutes to let the flavours come together.
• Optionally have people spike the finished product with brandy.