Mulled Wine on a Star

For years I have started to buy mulled wine as early in the fall as it becomes available. Usually I buy non-alcoholic, so maybe I should say "Mulled without wine". Anyway, in Finland we call I "Glögi" -both ways, with or without alcohol. This year it has been different. I have cut down sugers from my diet fot health reasons, so that is why I have not been too keen on buing readymade Glögi. Instead I have read a lot of recepies, and planned to make my own version, with minimum sugar.



This is how it turned out to be:

2dl sugarless cranberry juice  (I used one made in Finland from Finnish berries)
3dl water
a little bit of readymade "glögi" -concentrate
fructose, by taste

Christmas Spices: cinnamon, ginger, Dianthus, raisins, orange peel
2dl Dry white wine

We have a ready made seasoning mix for "glögi" available during the christmas season, you can buy it, as well as "glögi" concentrate from Suomikauppa (a shop for Finnish goods)


At first boil the water, then mix with cranberry juice, fructose, seasoninf mix, and the "glögi" concentrate and keep warm for apx. 45 min. but do not boil. Then filter off the spices and add in the wine. Warm up and serve with raisins and almonds.

The brand new stars under the Glögi mugs are made the same way as the origami stars, but left "two-dimensional". They are made from 3 cm wide linen ribbon and to make the re-usable I sewed a rectange in the midlle of the star to hold the ribbon in place. Pretty.