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Christmas: Mulled Red Wine

Source of Recipe


From "Camille Glenn's Old-Fashioned Christmas Cookbook"



List of Ingredients



• Zest and juice of 2 lemons
  
• Zest and juice of ½ navel orange
  
• 2 cups cold water
  
• 7 or 8 whole cloves
  
• 1 cinnamon stick (3 inches long)
  
• ¼ cup sugar
  
• 1 bottle good-quality red wine
  






Instructions



1. Warm 12 to 15 punch cups.
   
   
2. Finely sliver the lemon and orange zest. Strain the lemon and orange juices into a stainless-steel saucepan. Add the zest, water, cloves, cinnamon stick, and sugar.
   
   
3. Pour in the wine and heat the mixture until it is very hot, but do not allow it to boil. Strain the wine into a heated pitcher and then pour it into the warm punch cups and serve immediately.
   
   Serves 12 to 15