Sunday, November 22, 2026

🍲 Cuisine

The Vin Chaud Formula

French mulled wine is not sweet and not boiled. It is warmed, barely, with orange, cinnamon and a modest amount of sugar, and it uses a wine you would be willing to drink cold.

Warm a bottle of decent red with one orange sliced, one cinnamon stick, two cloves and two tablespoons of sugar. Hold it below a simmer for twenty minutes. Never let it boil.

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