Time for Glogg! (Glug, gloegg, whatever)

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Hot spiced wine!

It’s getting cold up north here. We have our fireplace stoking. I’ve been shoveling a lot of snow.

When you come in out of the cold and sit a bit by the fire the thing to drink that really hits the spot is some hot spiced wine done the traditional Swedish way as Glogg.

I “gloogled” some recipes and I’m guessing there’s a powerful “close enough” situation going on with this brew, so I give you permission to just wing it!

What you do is boil/simmer a bunch of spices for about an hour then add it to red wine and get that simmering. You can let the spice-concoction sit overnight if you like—it only gets better. You can strain the spices out of it or let em just keep perking.

Here it is:

the spice brew:

3 cinnamon sticks

tablespoon orangepeel

tablespoon lemonpeel

chunk o ginger

10 cardamoms

10 cloves

4 allspice

1 c. water

1 c. sugar

Stew up the mix for an hour then add a bottle or 2 of red wine. Get it all simmering hot and serve up.

Ya know, this is basically the recipe for Chai Tea. Just take the initial watery, lovely-smelling simmering brew and add black tea to it (cream, too, is nice).



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