Mulled Wine III Recipe
- 2 navel oranges
- 1 small lemon
- 2 (750 milliliter) bottles dry red wine such as Cotes du Rhone
- 1 cup sugar
- 10 black peppercorns
- 8 whole cloves
- 4 whole star anise
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- Garnish:
- Orange slices studded with cloves
- Remove zest from oranges and lemon with a vegetable peeler and remove any white pith from zest. Squeeze juice from zested oranges and lemon.
- Bring wine, zest, juices, sugar, peppercorns, cloves, star anise, and nutmeg to a simmer, stirring until sugar is dissolved, and simmer 2 more minutes. Pour mulled wine through a fine sieve into a heat-proof pitcher.
