Glogg by Sophia

Posted by Chris on January 17, 2008

According to Sophia, Christmas Glogg is the antidote to feeling irregular. You might want to read her post for that to make sense.

Sophia’s recipe is derived from her undergrad days when one of her professors had a Mexican crock he propped against a bed of coals (paints a beautiful image) and filled it with “mystery fluid” and a whole orange with a bunch of cloves stuck all over it. Here’s her concoction:

So here’s what you do in your own kitchen. Get some kind of apple or berry juice–I found cranberry-apple on sale. Find an old orange and stick some cloves in it, then pour the juice into a stainless steel pan and put the orange ball in with it, along with a stick of cinnamon. I found a lime in the fridge, so I cut a slice off and put it in with the peel on. You can add more spices, but if you ask me, those recipe books with the dozen or ingredients and all those references to spice bags, citrus peel, raisins, cardamom, and almonds are unnecessarily intimating. Just boil up the juice with the orange ball and cinnamon stick. Then take whatever booze you like and put some in your glass with the hot concoction. I put in about a third Merlot. This is supposed to be a “mulled wine” so brandy would probably be appropriate, but the important thing is to drink something you like. The advantage to using wine is that if you’re like me and real lightweight with booze–I fall asleep on half a beer–you can sip this slowly and feel a little mellow without having the urge to put lampshades on your head.

The interesting thing (to me) about this “glogg recipe” is its main base of fruit juice but it sounds good enough and I am up for it. Enjoy it and make sure to send a cheer out to Sophia before your first sip.