VOLUME 1 - Kilimanjaro Foods

Gluehwein
4 Servings
60 g sugar
1/2 cinnamon stick
4 cloves
1 peel of 1/2 lemon
1/8 l water
1 l red wine
1 juice of 1/2 - 1 lemon
Put cinnamon, cloves and lemon peel in a paper tea filter; tie it shut
with a piece of white yarn. Together with the water and the sugar,
bring it to a boil in a pot, let sit for 20 minutes. Take out the tea
filter, add the red wine and heat. The art is to heat the wine up as
close to its boiling temperature without ever getting it
to boil (the most important thing about making gluehwein is that
the wine must NEVER boil). Finally, add lemon juice to taste.
Possible variations: leave away the lemon juice or use orange juice
instead leave away the lemon peel instead of boiling the tea filter,
put it directly into the wine, heat,
and let soak for 30 - 45 minutes (you don't need the water this way); if
you chop up the ingredients before putting them in the filter,
you get a more intensive flavor add a few drops of vanilla add a little
cardamom and/or ginger vary the quantities of cinnamon, cloves and
sugar to get the possibly most famous type of gluehwein, the
Nuernberger Christkindlesmarkt-Gluehwein, use blueberry wine
instead of red wine