Preparation secrets of "the flaring wine"

What you have associations with the word "mulled wine"? My imagination right there draws the fireplace decorated with fir-tree branches in which fire, a rocking-chair before it and a glass in a hand with the hot, burning, unusually tasty drink cheerfully crackles …

Whether you know that mulled wine not only is nice to the taste, but also is very useful to health?

It is recommended when overcooling, physical and mental overfatigue, cough and cold, a depression and insomnia. Some scientists consider that mulled wine helps with fight against flu and cold as strong prophylactic, it perfectly helps to enhance immunity.

Besides, this drink has also bactericidal properties therefore it is recommended for recovering from the postponed infectious diseases.

Structure of mulled wine
Traditionally, as a basis of mulled wine it is taken red or white dry wine. Of course, you can use both moist, and semisweet. However true judges of mulled wine claim that the most optimal variant – dry wine as the sweet is given to drink at the expense of other components.

- It is honey and sugar. It is recommended to add them to already warmed up wine since in cold it is much more difficult to calculate a dosage, and as a result mulled wine can turn out put too much sugar. Honey is more useful, it adds to drink the curative properties and well warms. The wine combination to cane and vanilla sugar is interesting.

- Fruit. A citrus, apples, peaches and apricots are most often used. In various recipes also exotic fruit are added: bananas, kiwi, pineapple. Besides, juice, apple, orange, lemon, etc. often is a part of mulled wine. Perhaps small addition of dried fruits (raisin, prunes, dried apricots) and berries (cranberry, blackcurrant and bilberry).

- Seasonings and spices for mulled wine it is better to take not ground since being dissolved, they can create a muddy film and spoil taste of drink. Most often use the following seasonings.

- Cinnamon. It helps to struggle with cold, possesses antimicrobic action, removes slags, reduces the level of sugar, cholesterol and fat in blood. Its aroma well speeds up work of a brain. It is the best of all to use cinnamon in sticks.

- Ginger. Warms and calms, creates immunity. Well helps at dizzinesses, weakness and nausea.

- Nutmeg. Improves blood circulation, increases appetite, warms and makes active protective forces of an organism.

- Carnation. Treats cold, anesthetizes and facilitates breath. It is possible to keep waiting a lemon this seasoning for preparation of mulled wine. Just thrust in it butonchik of a carnation and leave approximately for an hour. Then when cooking lower a lemon in wine.

- Fragrant black pepper. Good antiseptics, helps to restore forces, the stomach treats.

- Cardamom. Calms, increases immunity, anesthetizes, tones up, normalizes digestion and brings slags out of an organism. Besides, is aphrodisiac.

- For strengthening of taste and a variety it is possible to add to mulled wine to taste also following seasonings: bay leaf, coriander, anise, anisetree, saffron, Jamaican pepper, barberry, officinal herbs (melissa, mint, St. John's wort, etc.).

- Hard alcoholic beverages. Add them gradually not to kill taste of wine. Well cognac, tequila, rum, vodka, liqueurs and port wine are suitable for mulled wine.

Councils for preparation of mulled wine

- You do not bring mulled wine to boiling. Temperature of heating of wine has to be no more than 70 °C. It is the best of all to use the enameled pan for these purposes. Heat wine to disappearance of a white skin on a surface.

- And here water which is a part of mulled wine should be boiled surely! Add to it some spice and boil 5-7 minutes. So the bouquet of seasonings will most fully reveal, their taste will pass into water.

- Pour in prokipyachenny water in wine carefully, on edge of ware not to spoil its taste.

- You can long heat mulled wine on weak fire.

- It is possible to bring quickly drink to emergence of bubbles, to switch off and insist.

- Add some seasoning moderately.

- It is possible to use ready sets of seasonings for mulled wine.

- After heating filter mulled wine through a strainer, pour and add fruit and berries which remained when filtering to taste.

- It is better to use high glasses from thick glass. Special glasses for mulled wine are issued.

- It is possible to leave ready mulled wine to infuse for 40 minutes, and it is possible to drink it right after preparation.

- It is possible to store drink in a thermos, from it it begins to play new tastes. Only surely remove from it a lemon, otherwise mulled wine can begin to taste bitter.

- It is recommended to use no more than two glasses of drink a day.

- To mulled wine serve cakes and cookies, fruit and cheese.


And now several recipes of mulled wines

• Classical mulled wine
Add to 1/3 glasses of water 6-7 pieces of a carnation, a sugar tablespoon, it is a little nutmeg, if desired it is possible to add also other spices little by little, a dried peel of a lemon or orange, fruit. The received mix needs to be boiled and cooked on small fire. Well for these purposes is suitable the Turk for coffee. Leave Vskipyachenny water with spices to infuse for about 10 minutes. Pour out wine (0.75-1 l) in a pan and put on fire. Carefully pour in water, it is possible to add a little strong alcohol. Add still a tablespoon of granulated sugar. Heat to emergence of the first bubbles.

• Mokko-glintveyn
Mix in a pan 2 cups of strong grain coffee, 0.75 l of red wine, 150 g of granulated sugar, 3 glasses of cognac and warm up, without bringing to boiling. Drink hot.

• Mulled wine from white wine
Half-glass of water mix with 2 buds of a carnation, 100 g of sugar, 3 sticks of cinnamon, 1 orange (cut it with circles). Boil and filter. Pour out the received mix in 0.75 l of dry white or apple wine, heat and drink hot.

• Fruit mulled wine
Mix 300 ml of white or red wine from 0.5 l of apple juice and a dried peel of one lemon. Heat to 70 °C. Filter and drink.

As you can see, mulled wine options huge set. Experiment, create, try! And let cold evenings will turn into a holiday by means of "the flaring wine", the word "mulled wine" is quite so translated from German.