Gløgg (Danish mulled wine)

Vanilla beans · 8–10 glasses · 15 min + 1 hour to infuse

Warm Christmas gløgg, where the vanilla rounds off the spices.

Ingredients

• 1 bottle red wine
• 100 ml port or dark rum (optional)
• 100 g sugar
• 1 organic orange, zest and juice
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 5 cloves
• 5 cardamom pods, crushed
• 1 vanilla bean
• 100 g raisins
• 50 g chopped almonds

Method

1. Heat the wine, sugar, orange and spices, including the split vanilla bean. Do not let it boil.
2. Take the pan off the heat and let the gløgg infuse for at least 1 hour.
3. Strain out the spices, add the port or rum, and reheat.
4. Serve with raisins and almonds in the glass.

Tip: use the whole bean. A scraped vanilla bean still has plenty of flavour. Put it in a jar of sugar, and after a couple of weeks you have your own vanilla sugar.

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