W. Kandinsky, Composition IV, 1911

Glintwein

Ingredients

red dry wine (shiraz, chianti) – 0.75l

lemons – 2

cinnamon – 1 stick

nutmeg – 1 (better crashed)

cloves – 5-6

honey

brandy (or rum or whiskey or vodka, but brandy is the best) – about half a cup.

1. Warm the wine, don’t let it boil. If it starts boiling make the fire smaller or take the wine off the fire.
2. Cut the lemons to quarters, squeeze them into the wine, throw the lemons in.
3. Put in the rest of spices.
4. Add honey and stir. Taste. Repeat the process until you are satisfied with sweetness of the product.
5. Add brandy.
6. Let it stay in thermos a couple of hours.
7. Enjoy.

Links

Cooking book (in Russian)

The wineman

Lisashea