Drinks for Christmas: Three hot recipes with alcohol

To make winter less uncomfortable and cold, warm drinks for Christmas are a must. You will find three recipes for warm drinks with alcohol in this article.

Drinks for Christmas – Recipe for a classic mulled wine

Warm wines with citrus fruits and Christmas spices – properly combined, you can conjure up delicious hot drinks for the Christmas season.

• Ingredients:1 bottle of dry red wine, 1 organic orange or organic lemon, 2 sticks of cinnamon, 3 cloves, 1 star anise, 2 to 3 tablespoons of honey or rock candy

• Preparation: Wash the orange or lemon and cut it into slices.

• Heat the red wine in a pot. But make sure that the red wine does not boil, otherwise the alcohol will evaporate.

• Add the remaining ingredients and remove the pot from the cooker. Leave the mulled wine to infuse for an hour.

• Before you drink it, you need to warm it up again. Again, be careful not to bring it to a boil.

• Take a strainer and fish the ingredients out again or pour the mulled wine through the strainer into the cups.

• Tip: If you want to try something new, we recommend the trendy drink Glüh-Gin.

Christmas drinks: Apple punch

If you’re not a big fan of red wine, you’ll love this delicious apple punch.

• Ingredients: 1 litre apple juice, 4 cloves, 1 stick of cinnamon, 1 star anise, honey to taste, amaretto or fruit schnapps

• Preparation: Heat the apple juice in a saucepan on the cooker and add all the ingredients.

• Let the apple punch steep for about 5 minutes. Pour this into the cups with a sieve too, so that the ingredients don’t get poured in with it.

• Add a dash of Amaretto or Obstler to each cup to taste. You can also add the alcohol directly to the pot and taste.

Simple fire punch

You’ll definitely score points with your guests with a homemade Feuerzangenbowl.

• Ingredients: 2 litres red wine, 2 organic oranges, 2 organic lemons, 1 stick of cinnamon, 6 cloves, 3 star anise, 1 sugar loaf, 350ml rum (54%). If you want the punch a little milder: 500ml orange juice

• Preparation: Cut the oranges into slices. Also cut the peel of the lemons thinly and as far as you can in one piece.

Squeeze the lemons and pour the juice together with the spices into the red wine.
• Heat the red wine slowly on the cooker. Again, be careful not to bring it to a boil.
• Now add the orange slices and lemon peel. You can arrange the lemon peels decoratively on top of the orange peels.
• Pour the red wine into a bowl. Then put the sugar loaf on the fire tongs, pour the rum over it and light it. Always use a ladle for this as soon as the sugar loaf is burning.