It is once again time to share the recipe for the Swedish Yule Drink, Glögg, a type of mulled wine common throughout Scandinavia. Note that this was based on our family recipe, and every family made it differently and with slightly different spices. Ours, perhaps uniquely, featured allspice. Most others I've seen used crushed almonds instead of sliced. Cardamom is essential. Don't even try to make this if you don't have cardamom pods.
Here is the traditional Swedish Christmas drink, Glogg, or for those of you in Scandinavia, Glögg:
Ingredients:
1 liter of "wine" (red port, tawny port, or red wine)
1 liter of "spirits" (vodka, aquavit, or equiv.)
1.5 liter of water
4-5 dl of "sugar" (caramel, brown sugar or plain sugar)
Spices:
Peel of one half orange, torn into pieces
Approx. 16 cm of cinnamon stick (bark), broken into several pieces
8 green cardamom pods
3 tsp. sliced almonds
16 whole cloves
handful of raisins
8 whole allspice
Procedure:
In a 4 liter saucepan, bring the water to a small boil,
add sugar.
When sugar is dissolved, add spices and continue at a small boil for about 15 minutes.
Mix in liter of wine. Mix in liter of spirits.
Turn burner down to low, cover saucepan, and simmer for 15 minutes.
Turn off burner, and let steep for 2-3 hours.
Strain off spices and bottle. Spices can be reused once or twice. (I don't recommend twice)
How to drink:
Warm glögg in saucepan. Do not boil. Serve in warmed glasses with a couple raisins. Don't drink and drive.
No glögg is that bad, once you've had a few. ;+)
aem
This recipe for Glögg, a traditional Swedish Christmas drink, was copied from A.E. Mossberg.
