Comforting hot drink for winter evenings
Glühwein — spiced mulled wine from the Rhine
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Rhine wine warmed with cinnamon, cloves, citrus peels, and a hint of honey. Fragrant, tangy, briskly spiced: the drink that loosens speech when the Prussian cold grips the windows.
Comforting hot drink for winter evenings
Rhine wine warmed with cinnamon, cloves, citrus peels, and a hint of honey. Fragrant, tangy, briskly spiced: the drink that loosens speech when the Prussian cold grips the windows.
When the Berlin winter freezes the windows, nothing warms the mind better than a good Rhine wine gently heated — never boiled, for excessive heat drives away its soul. One tosses in cinnamon, clove, orange peel, and a little honey. Served steaming, it loosens tongues and prolongs those dinners in company which I hold to be one of the true pleasures of thought. Drink it slowly, and let us converse.
Ingredients
- •Rhine wine (white or light red) — a good bottle (base)
- •Honey — to taste (sweetness)
- •Cinnamon stick — one (spice)
- •Cloves — a few (spice)
- •Orange and lemon peel — a few strips (tangy aroma)
How it was made : Spiced hot wine dates back to Roman antiquity (conditum) and was common in Germanic lands from the Middle Ages to warm and mask lesser wines. In the 19th century, it accompanied winter evenings and Advent markets; the term Glühwein became established at this time.