Recipe for Glogg (Mulled Wine)

Mulled Wine

In Nordic countries, mulled wine is called Glogg. You may also see it spelt Glögg, gløgg, glögi.

Who doesn’t love a glass of mulled wine on a cold winter night ?

Best shared with family and friends, it’s a welcome beverage to wrap your hands around, sip and exchange stories and yarns and laughter.

GLOGG

Ingredients

• 2 bottles dry red wine

• 1/2 bottle Port

• 1 cup Vodka

• 1/4 lb dried figs, sliced

• 1/4 lb raisins

• 2 oranges, peel ribbons & juice

• 9 oz light brown sugar

• 2 star anise

• 4 Indonesian long peppers

• 5 cloves

• 7 cardamom pods

• 3 cinnamon sticks

Instructions:

Place all ingredients in a large pot and bring mixture to a simmer, stirring from time to time.

Remove from heat and allow glögg to macerate for 2 hours. Strain when ready to use, reheat and serve with blanched almonds, raisins and pepparkakor or ginger snaps on the side.

Pepparkakor are delicate, incredibly light, thin, crisp cookies – baked in hundreds in every Scandinavian home. Pepparkakor means pepper biscuits. Originally they contained pepper. Nowadays they are made with cinnamon, ground cloves, ginger and cardamom.