Mulled wine kit

Recipe with 8 ingredients.

Total time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 orange
• 70 cl bottle red wine
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 0.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 8 - 12 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 85 gram demerara sugar
• 25cm square butter muslin (available from department & hardware stores)

Method

1. Put the muslin on a flat surface and tip the sugar, ginger and nutmeg into the centre. Tie into a pouch with fine string and attach to the neck of the wine bottle. Then attach the cinnamon stick to the bottle with a little raffia.
2. Stick the cloves into the orange and pack into a box lined with raffia or shredded paper, with the wine.
3. Tie a label to the wine bottle with the following instructions: ‘Tip the contents of the muslin bag into a pan with the wine, orange, cinnamon stick and 300ml/½pt water. Simmer for 5 mins, then serve.’