Old-Fashioned Swedish Glogg

Name: Old-Fashioned Swedish Glogg
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 7
Cuisine: Nordic, Scandinavian, European
Ingredients: 170 grams package blanched slivered almonds; 3 whole cardamom pods, cracked; 1 small cinnamon stick; 3 inches orange peel; 3750 milliliters port wine; 425 grams package dark raisins; 750 milliliters white rum; 750 milliliters 100 proof bourbon whiskey; 177 milliliters white sugar; 8 inches cheesecloth

Old-Fashioned Swedish Glogg is a vegan recipe with 7 servings. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains roughly 8g of protein, 13g of fat, and a total of 1763 calories. If you have raisins, cheesecloth, rum, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Plenty of people really liked this Scandinavian dish. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Instructions

Heat the port wine over medium heat until just below the simmer point in a large stockpot with a lid.

Ingredients you will need

Port

Equipment you will use

Pot

Add bourbon and rum, and bring back to just below simmering. Save the bottles and their caps for storing leftover glogg.

Ingredients you will need

Bourbon

Rum

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.

Ingredients you will need

Cinnamon Stick

Orange Zest

Cardamom

Clove

Wine

Equipment you will use

Kitchen Twine

Cheesecloth

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.

Ingredients you will need

Sugar

Put the lid on the stockpot to extinguish the flames, and turn off the heat.

Equipment you will use

Pot

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.

Ingredients you will need

Almonds

Raisins

Spices

Wine

Equipment you will use

Cheesecloth

Strain the cooled glogg and reserve the raisins and almonds.

Ingredients you will need

Almonds

Raisins

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.

Ingredients you will need

Almonds

Raisins

Equipment you will use

Bowl

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.

Ingredients you will need

Almonds

Raisins

Coffee