As days are getting longer here
Inviting by mý fireplace
With music that will please my ear
The spicy wine my chill will chase
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My favorite recipe for glögg (Swedish mulled wine) is as follows
1 bottle of red wine,
cheap but with some body – I prefer Spanish
10 cl vodka (or white rum for variation)
10 g whole cinnamon (=4-5 pieces)
1 1/2 g cloves (about 20)
A small piece dried ginger
2 g seed of cardemom
(if you take pods increase slightly)
A piece of dried bitter orange-peel (pomerans)
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3 dl white sugar (I usually take a little less)
1 tsp vanilla-sugar
raisin and almonds to serve
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Crush the seed of cardemom in a mortar, break the cinnamon sticks. Put the spices in a jar and add the liqour. Let stand over night and the filter through for instance a coffee filter. Add the liqour to the wine and add sugar and vanilla-sugar. Heat it carefully and serve in small cups with raisins and almonds.
I usually make a bigger batch of spicy liquor and then mix the glögg right before serving.
Picture from wikimedia commons.
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October 28, 2012
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Sounds amazing! I love making mulled cider in my crock pot, but I’ve never made wine before. Sounds perfect for holiday parties.
It is. The smell of glögg permeates our advent here in Sweden.
I wish I could smell this
That smell with Gingerbread permeate the Swedish December 🙂
I shall smell vicariously 😉
I was introduced to Glogg at the Christmas fairs in Frankfurt and I still love it now on a cold and wintry evening over Christmas – standing with a bag of hot chestnuts as well 🙂
Glad you like it, hope you can try this recipe. It’s the best I have tasted.
I’ll give it a go coming up to Christmas and let you know 🙂
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This sounds delicious!
It is 🙂 we drink it through December (advent) basically. But I can actually drink it more often.
Is there a trick to the heating so that it may be done without vaporizing too much of the alcohol?
Slowly, and with the lid on. Never let it boil. Then you save the alcohol well. Let the condensation on the lid drip back into the pot.
Wow! Whay yumness! May I post your recipe on my blog – while giving you full credit for it. I would post a link back to your site here. This sounds wonderful. 🙂
Of course 🙂
Oh, my gosh. My uncle makes glogg but I only had a small taste once as a kid. I thought it was awful. Haha. I’ll keep your recipe handy for when I get brave enough to try making some myself.
Make it for when winter comes 🙂
you lost me after ‘fireplace’;)
woweee this has a twist compared to the UK version, mm yum
Oh my this looks wonderful!!!! Perfect for this time of year.
I did it once in the US, and I remember that some spices where harder to get than other… I especially remember that cardamom was hard to get, we had almost given up, when we had lunch at a middle-east sandwich place, and there they sold cinnamon…
I keep cardamom. It is a wonderful spice. My grandfather used to make a delicious cardamom bread. I need to hunt up that recipe…
You can make cardamom buns the same way you do cinnamon buns actually… 🙂
Thank you. I shall do this.
Yum, spicy wine. I have never had it — must try. I printed out the recipe — thank you!