Hvid Gløgg (Mulled White Wine)
This white mulled wine is the perfect drink for autumn or winter, with plenty of warming spices and delicious wine to give you all the cozy feelings!
Ingredients
- 10 cardamom pods
- 15 peppercorns
- 3-4 cinnamon sticks
- 5 star anise
- 25 whole cloves
- 50 g (1/4 cup) brown sugar
- Zest/peel of one orange
- 360 ml (1.5 cups) water
- 85 g (1/2 cup) raisins
- Rum
- Slivered almonds (you can also use whole blanched almonds)
- 750 ml (1 bottle) dry or semi-sweet white wine
- 474 ml (2 cups) apple cider
Instructions
- A few hours before serving, add raisins to a glass and cover with rum (we don’t measure an exact amount of rum) to let them soak.
- Combine all of your spices, sugar, orange peel, orange juice, and water in a saucepan over low heat.
- Stir until the sugar dissolves; then let your mixture simmer for around an hour to an hour and a half, keeping it covered. You can add more water if needed as well.
- Strain your extract. If you aren’t making the gløgg right away, you can store your extract in a bottle in the fridge. Use within a week.
- Heat up the apple cider in a large pot. Turn the stove off, then add the bottle of wine to the pot (it can be dangerous to pour alcohol into a pot with the stove on if you have a gas stove with a flame). Then, add the extract, raisins, and whatever rum is leftover in the glass you soaked your raisins in.
- Heat your wine mixture until it is just hot enough – you don’t want to boil off the alcohol. Once the edges start to bubble, it should be ready!
- Add slivered almonds to the bottom of your mugs. Ladle your wine and raisins into the mugs. Enjoy!
