Appleberry mulled wine
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Ready in 25-30 minutes
- Easy
- Enough for 12 glasses
Ingredients
- 2 x 75cl bottles red wine (such as Merlot; better quality wine makes all the difference)
- 1l good-quality cloudy apple juice
- 115g caster sugar
- 1long cinnamon stick, snapped in half
- 2 star anise
- 3 tbsp orange Curaçao or Cointreau
- a handful or so (about 100g/4oz) frozen mulled fruit or fruits of the forest or Black Forest fruits
- 3small red-skinned apples, sliced into rings
Method
- STEP 1
Pour the wine and apple juice into a large saucepan and add the sugar, cinnamon stick and star anise. Heat gently, stirring once or twice, until the sugar has dissolved, then continue heating gently for another 15 minutes.
- STEP 2
Just before serving, swirl in the Curaçao or Cointreau, throw in the frozen fruits and add the apple slices.
