Hot Cranberry Glogg Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the port wine over medium heat until just below the simmer point in a large stockpot with a lid. Add bourbon and rum, and bring back to just below simmering. Save the bottles and their caps for storing leftover glogg.
• While the wine and liquors are heating, place the cardamom, cinnamon stick, cloves, and orange peel onto the center of the square of cheesecloth. Gather together the edges of the cheesecloth, and tie with kitchen twine to secure.
• When mixture is very hot but not boiling, carefully light it with a long-handled match. Wearing a heatproof cooking mitt, carefully pour the sugar into the flames, and let the mixture burn for 1 minute. Put the lid on the stockpot to extinguish the flames, and turn off the heat. Let the mixture cool, covered, for about 10 minutes; add the cheesecloth bundle of spices and the raisins and almonds to the warm wine mixture and let it cool to room temperature, about 1 hour.
• Strain the cooled glogg and reserve the raisins and almonds.
• To store, pour strained glogg into the bottles, recap, and keep upright in a cool dark place for up to 1 year. Refrigerate the steeped raisins and almonds in a covered bowl or jar for up to 1 year.
• To serve, pour glogg into a saucepan and warm over low-medium heat until hot but not simmering, about 5 minutes. Ladle 3 ounces of warmed glogg into a small coffee cup or small Swedish-style glogg mug, and garnish each serving with a few reserved raisins and almonds.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, cook cranberries in 2 cups water until they pop. Strain through a fine sieve, reserving juice and discarding skins; set aside. , In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, candies, cloves and remaining water. Cook until candies are dissolved. Add orange and lemon juices and reserved cranberry juice; heat though. Discard cloves. Serve hot.

Steps:

• In a glass or stainless steel bowl, combine juice, wine, sugar, water, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves (at this point, you can cover and refrigerate it until you need it).
• Warm glögg in a pan over medium heat just until heated through- don't boil or the alcohol will boil off and then it's no fun.
• Float orange slice on top.
• To serve, keep warm over a candle or on an electric warming tray.
• Ladle into cups, adding raisins and almonds to individual servings.
• To make non-alcoholic, omit sugar and water and use 2 cups more cranberry-apple juice.

Steps:

• Combine wine, orange juice, star anise, cardamom, 2 cinnamon sticks, honey and dried cranberries in large saucepan.
• Bring to low simmer, cover & cook 5 minutes.
• Turn off heat and let steep 1 hours.
• Strain liquid and return to saucepan.
• Reheat just before serving.
• Garnish w/ cinnamon stick and orange slice.

Steps:

• Combine ingredients in a large saucepan.
• Stir to dissolve sugar.
• Heat over low heat for 15 minutes.
• Serve hot.