Swedish Mulled Wine

This mulled wine recipe is a popular Swedish treat.

• One  bottle of red table wine
• One quarter to a half of a cup of vodka
• Zest (peel) from half a lemon
• Between five and twenty cloves
• One rounded teaspoon of cardamom seeds, crushed
• Two, three or four cinnamon sticks, crushed
• Half of a cup to one cup of sugar
• One rounded teaspoon vanilla sugar
• One or two pieces of ginger

Instructions

Place the lemon peel, the spices and the vodka in a glass jar. Leave overnight. The following day, strain the vodka, leaving the spices. Then pour the spiced vodka, the wine and the sugar in a saucepan and cook, stirring frequently, until the mixture is steaming hot. Do not allow the mixture to boil.

You may adjust the taste by adding sugar to sweeten or by adding wine if the mixture is too sweet.