![]() Small tin warmers may be purchased for a trifle, which is more suitable than saucepans, as, if the latter are not scrupulously clean they spoil the wine, by imparting to it a very disagreeable flavour. The vessel that the wine is boiled in must be delicately cleaned and should be kept exclusively for the purpose. Any kind of wine may be mulled, but port and claret are those usually selected for the purpose, and the latter requires a very large proportion of sugar. ![]() ![]() The spices usually used for mulled wine are cloves, grated nutmeg, and cinnamon or mace. Boil the spice in the water until the flavour is extracted, then add the wine and sugar, and bring the whole to the boiling point, then serve with strips of crisp dry toast, or with biscuits. Mode.-In making preparations like the above, it is very difficult to give the exact proportions of ingredients like sugar and spice, as what quantity might suit one person would be to another quite distasteful. INGREDIENTS.- To every pint of wine allow 1 large cupful of water, sugar, and spice to taste. Mulled cider (and sometimes mulled ale, traditional yet no longer common) is also served, with a mulled apple juice as a non-alcoholic alternative. Mulled wine is very popular and traditional in the United Kingdom at Christmas, and less commonly throughout winter. This is mixed with red wine and sugar (form and quantity unstated). " grinding together cinnamon, ginger, galangal, cloves, long pepper, nutmeg, marjoram, cardamom, and grains of paradise ("spykenard de Spayn", rosemary may be substituted). The Forme of Cury, a medieval English cookery book from 1390, which mentioned mulled wine, says: "Pur fait Ypocras. The legions brought wine and viticulture with them up to the Rhine and Danube rivers and to the Scottish border, along with their recipes. The Romans travelled across Europe, conquering much of it and trading with the rest. ![]() The first record of wine being spiced and heated can be found in Plautus's play Curculio, written during the 2nd century BC. ![]()
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