Manda’s Mulled Wine

48 Glasses

When you decide to invite 80 people to your house a couple of days before Christmas and you have lots of turkeys to sell and you have 17 guests for Christmas itself and you have decided to have a 60 minute makeover on your daughters room that day, you really need a good mulled wine to settle your nerves, make the house smell inviting and not be too strong so that you loose the plot and peak too early..…. Mary Berry’s inspired recipe was tweaked here to include more fresh orange juice, which I think is the secret weapon:

8 bottles of red wine (plonk)

5 large lemons juice (400ml) and zest (use the potato peeler before juicing)

4 oranges juice (300ml) and zest

64 cloves

6x6 inch cinnamon sticks snapped in half

1.5 pints of freshly squeezed orange juice (10 oranges)

6.5 pints of water

600g sugar

1 orange cut up for serving garnish (optional)

Warm, don’t boil for 1-2 hrs. Strain it.

Goes well with mince pies and party dresses, but might stain when worn at the same time.

Amanda

Nantgwynfaen Organic Farm