Christmas Market in Landshut, Bavaria

Ingredients:

•  1 bottle   Red Wine
•            1   Cinnamon Sticks
•            1   Orange
•            1   Lemon
•            3   Whole Cloves
•            2   Allspice, whole
•            1   Cardamon, whole – optional
•                 Cane sugar to taste
•                 Rum 160 proof
•                 Sugar Cubes

Directions:
Combine the first 8 ingredients into a large enough pot and heat.
The Sugar amount depends on the sweetness/dryness of the wine you are using and to your taste of how sweet you like the final result. In Germany the end result is usually on the sweet side.

When heated let it draw over low heat for at least 15 minutes before serving.

Do not boil!!!

Ladle the wine into porcelain mugs or heatproof glasses.
Set the “sugar holder” on top and place a sugar cube on it.
Soak the sugar with the rum and light.
The “romantic” blue flame will melt the sugar and it will drip into the hot wine.
If needed, spoon more rum over the sugar until the sugar is dissolved.
Be careful not to set your house on fire.

Never pour the rum directly from the bottle on to the flame!!!

Serve and enjoy!

	The Sugar Holders I found in Bavaria

Sugar Holders: I am working on making homemade sugar holders out of 8 or 10 gauge solid Copper or Stainless Steel Wire, bend into a loop like on the red cup above, but laid on the cups like in the pictures right above! I will post pictures when I have them!

I see recipes calling for up scale wines for this, with the added sugar you do not have to be that fussy. Using ALDI or Trader Joe’s red wine assortment will give you just as many positive opinions, even from my wine connoisseur friends.

8awg copper wire