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Hippocras Mulled Wine Recipe

This is the original recipe from Le Viandier de Taillevent in 1375.

Vegetarian
Hippocras Mulled Wine Recipe
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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 8oz Sugar
  • 1 quart Wine
Spice mixture
  • 4oz Cinnamon
  • 1oz Mecca ginger
  • 1/12oz Nutmeg
  • 1oz Grains of paradise
  • 2oz Cassia flowers
  • 1/12oz Galingale (more normally called galangal)

This is the original recipe from Le Viandier de Taillevent in 1375. Alternatively you can use Old Hamlet Hippocras mix!

Method

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Take four ounces of very fine cinnamon, 2 ounces of fine cassia flowers, an ounce of selected Mecca ginger, an ounce of grains of paradise, and a sixth of an ounce of nutmeg and galingale combined. Crush them all together. Take a good half ounce of this powder and eight ounces of sugar, and mix it with a quart of wine.