White Gløgg

Recipe by: Happy Hat Uploaded by Drimble Wedge

Ingredients:

• 2 bottles of white wine or alcoholic cider
• Brown rum – at least 20cl, more is appreciated!
• 4 star anis anise
• A thumb sized piece of fresh ginger, sliced thickly
• Half a grated nutmeg
• 20 black peppercorn
• 2 sticks of cinnamon
• 4 allspice
• 4 juniper berries
• 1 tsp whole coriander
• Half a bay leaf
• Zest of 1 lemon
• Cane sugar

All the spices are to be whole, if they’re crushed, they will make the drink cloudy.

Crush the spices a bit in a mortar (not too much), just crack the peppercorns etc. and add them to 50 cl’s of water to a pot, and let it simmer for half an hour – leave until next day.

Strain the spice mixture, and add to wine/cider, and heat until right under boiling (80 degrees c), add sugar to taste, and add rum last.

Serve!

You can add the almonds or other toasted nuts to this as well, however I find that using raisins is somehow inappropriate.