Glögg - Swedish Yuletide Mulled Wine Drink

Glögg Recipe - Swedish Yuletide Drink

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. ;+)
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This recipe for Glögg, a traditional Swedish Christmas drink, was copied from A.E. Mossberg.

Apple Crisp Martini

The apple crisp is a quintessential fall martini. Great drink before a Thanksgiving feast

Ingredients:

2 parts GREY GOOSE® L’Orange Flavored Vodka
1 lemon wedge
1 tbs cinnamon sugar
1/4 small apple diced
1/2 part simple syrup
1/2 part Tuaca® Liqueur
3/4 parts fresh lemon juice

Instructions:

Rub the lemon wedge around rim of martini glass then roll into the cinnamonsugar. In a cocktail shaker, muddle together the diced apple and simple syrup.
Add ice and the remaining ingredients. Shake well until the outside of the
shaker is frosted and beaded with sweat. Strain into the prepared martini glass.

Frozen mango daiquiri

Step one: Don't use cheap booze.

Ingredients
3 ounces good rum
1 1⁄2 cups frozen mangoes, cubed
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 ounce triple sec
2 ounces mango purée
ice cubes

Method
Mix in blender.
Serve in tall glass with straw.

Rad Sangria

Balancing out sangria recipes, here's one with a red wine:

Serves: 4 Preparation time: 5 min

Ingredients
1 - macintosh apple
1 - orange
1/2 lime
1 bottle Cabernet Sauvignon
2.5 oz of cointreau
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Method
Cut apple into thin slices.
Carefully cut orange into slices, try not to loose the juice.
Add fruit to pitcher.
Add cointreau and wine.
Mix it up
Chill an hour to soak fruit and blend flavors.

makes about 4 glasses of sangria

Serve over ice

Bogged Down Mule

The Bogged Down Mule, another twist on the Moscow Mule

• 1 shot good vodka
• 2.5 oz of ginger beer
• a splash of cranberry juice
• lime

Mix vodka, ginger beer and cranberry juice. Squeeze in 1 slice lime

Serve over ice in a short glass.

Dark and Stormy Beach

When it's dark and stormy, head to the beach!

I took the traditional Dark and Stormy cocktail and added flip flops and a lounge chair.

DARK AND STORMY BEACH

• 2 parts - Barbancourt Rum
• 2 part - Coconut Water
• 3 parts - Ginger Beer
• Ice Cubes
• Slice of Lime

Fill tall glass with ice cubes

Add rum, coconut water and ginger beer

Serve with a slice of lime

Ultimate Lemonade

This Ultimate Lemonade recipe is borrowed from the Rink Bar at Rockefeller Plaza. Cheers!

Good Vodka 30%
Fresh Lemonade 60%
Cointreau 10%

Mix, serve cold over ice cubes

White Wine Sangria with Peach, Pear and Blueberries

On a warm summer day, a white wine sangria with peach, pear and blueberries takes the barbecue to another zone.

Serves: 4 Preparation time: 5 min

Ingredients
1 - ripe pear
1 - ripe peach
1/2 pint blueberries
1 bottle Sauvignon blanc
2.5 oz of cointreau
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Method
cut peach and pear into cubes, add to pitcher with the 1/2 pint blueberries.
Add cointreau and wine.
Chill an hour to soak fruit and blend flavors.

makes about 4 glasses of sangria

Serve over ice

Grey Goose L'Orange ~ Sunshine Daydream

I had an idea for a tropical drink, so I did a web search and found a bunch of similar drinks. Eh who cares, I figure I'd share anyway...

SUNSHINE DAYDREAM

• 4 parts - Grey Goose® L'Orange vodka
• 1 part - Triple Sec
• Splash of Cranberry Juice
• Key Lime Juice
• crushed ice
• slice of orange (or other citrus) 
• Shake vodka, triple sec and ice until very cold

 Rinse a cold martini glass with key lime juice and discard juice

Pour ice cold vodka mixture in martini glass, hit with a splash of cranberry juice and garnish with a slice of fruit