Medieval Hippocras Recipe (Medieval Mulled Wine)

Vegetarian
Medieval Hippocras Recipe (Medieval Mulled Wine)

Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 2 x 75cl bottles red wine
  • 200ml Water
  • 6 tbsp Sugar
  • 2 tsp Cinnamon powder
  • 1 tsp Cassia powder
  • ½tsp Ginger powder
  • ½tsp Grains of paradise
  • Pinch Nutmeg powder
  • Pinch Galangal

Method

01
Put the spices, sugar and water into a saucepan. Bring this to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Simmer for 5 – 10 minutes. Now add the wine and heat up to just below boiling point and stir gently for 5 minutes, making sure that it does not boil as all the alcohol will evapourate.
02
Serve warm in mugs or wine glasses.