Prep Time: 3 Minutes
Cooking Time: 25 Minutes
Yields: 4 Servings
Ingredients:
1 bottle of red wine (Cabernet and Zinfandel work best)
1 orange
¼ cup of Rye Whiskey
1/3 cup of honey
4 cinnamon sticks
2 tsp of dried all spice
¼ cup of granulated sugar
Directions:
First you want to grab a medium sized pot – big enough to hold the liquid from an entire bottle of wine and a little extra. Then you want zest your orange. Keep the zest you will use it later. Then quarter your orange. Pour the entire contents of your wine bottle into your pot. Squeeze your orange quarters over the pot containing your wine, releasing the juice into the mixture, then drop in the squeezed rinds. Next add your rye whiskey, sugar, and honey, cinnamon sticks, and all spice. Turn your burner to low/medium heat. You want to let this mixture simmer for 25 minutes, stir occasionally and prevent it from boiling, by keeping the heat low. As you stir add in little bits of your orange zest to add a little extra flavor. After 25 minutes, ladle the contents of your pot into a few coffee mugs and serve to your guests. This sweet and savory concoction will warm them up and perhaps even have them looking for pajamas, so you may not want to give this to the people you don’t want staying at your place after the meal is done!
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