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Chocolate Eggnog
Ponchetini
Hot Rum and Cranberry Toddy

Mulled Orange - Cranberry Punch
Sparkling Punch
Orange Spanish Sparkler
Classic Eggnog
Cranberry and Port Relish
Giblet Gravy
Sauerkraut with Wine
Cherry and Stout Sauce for Ham
Sweet Cranberry Sauce
Hot Buttered Rum

Mulled Wine

 


Chocolate Eggnog

Ingredients

200 ml   milk
300 ml   chocolate milk
    5        eggs, beaten with the sugar until thick
  50 ml
  brown sugar
100 ml   whipping cream
100 ml   strong black coffee
100 ml   Matusalem
Classico 10 Year Old rum
    5 ml   ground cinammon
 

Instructions

Combine milk and chocolate milk in a saucepan and scald (do not boil). . Add about 100 ml of the hot milk to the egg mixture and mix thoroughly. Then stir the egg mixture back into the hot milk, and place over low heat. Add whipping cream and coffee. Cook and stir until mixture thickens. Do not boil. Remove from heat and add rum and cinnamon. Let cool and refrigerate until chilled.


Ponchetini

Ingredients

80 ml Ponche Caballero Orange Brandy
1 lime, juiced
crushed ice


Instructions

Pour Ponche and lime juice over crushed ice in a shaker.  Shake well and strain into a martini glass.  Yum!


Hot Rum and Cranberry Toddy

Ingredients

2 l cranberry juice
2 pinches ground cinnamon
2 pinches ground nutmeg
250 ml Ponche Caballero Orange Brandy
750 ml Matusalem Gran Reserva Rum


Instructions

Heat cranberry juice and spices to just below boiling.  Stir in Ponche and Matusalem and serve


Mulled Orange - Cranberry Punch

Ingredients

1500 ml cranberry juice
750 ml orange juice
60 ml brown sugar
5 ml whole allspice
2 ml whole cloves
3 cinnamon sticks
250 ml Ponche Caballero Orange Brandy


Instructions

Simmer together all the ingredients except the Ponche Caballero for ten minutes.   Strain into a punch bowl, stir in the Ponche Caballero and serve.


Sparkling Punch

Ingredients

750 ml Bouvet-Ladubay Brut
120 ml Ponche Caballero
120 ml Matusalem Gran Reserva Rum
750 ml soda water


Instructions

Chill all ingredients in preparation for mixing.  Combine all ingredients in a chilled punch bowl.  Serve on a hot summer day, or on any festive occasion.


Orange Spanish Sparkler

This is a very refreshing nip for a hot summer day.  Truly the spirit of Spain!

Ingredients

60 ml Ponche Caballero
200 ml Castellblanch Brut Zero


Instructions

Pour the Ponche into a tall glass and top up with very well-chilled Brut Zero.


Classic Eggnog

Ingredients

      6 eggs
  100 gm sugar
      2 gm salt
1200 ml whole milk
      5 ml vanilla extract
  240 ml heavy cream
  500  ml  Ponche Caballero

Instructions

Beat together the eggs, sugar and salt. Stir in the milk. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently, until the mixture thickens. Remove from the heat, add the vanilla, and chill quickly on ice. Cover and refrigerate overnight. To serve, stir in the whipped heavy cream, add  Ponche Caballero, and garnish with a pinch of ground nutmeg or a twist of orange zest. 

Simmer all of the ingredients together until the cranberries have burst and the mixture thickens. Let the mixture cool, the spoon it into a lightly oiled decorative mold. Chill thoroughly. To unmold for serving with the festive bird, run a thin knife around the edge of the mold, dip the mold into warm water for a few seconds, and invert onto a serving plate.


Giblet Gravy

Ingredients

neck and giblets (excluding the liver) from the festive bird
1000 ml water
      1 onion, chopped
  250 ml dry white wine such as Corvo Bianco
    50 gm flour
salt and pepper


Instructions

Make a stock from the neck, giblets, water and onion by simmering them together for about an hour. Discard the onion, remove the meat from the neck, chop and reserve the neck meat and the giblets. When the turkey has finished cooking, pour off the fat from the roasting pan, reserving about 100ml of it. Deglaze the pan with the wine, add the stock and boil until it is reduced to about ½. In a saucepan, heat the reserved fat and the flour together for a few minutes to form a roux. Stirring continually, add the wine/stock mixture to the roux and then simmer for about ten minutes. Correct seasonings and add the reserved neck meat and giblets.


Sauerkraut with Wine

Ingredients

    80 gm butter
  400 gm chopped onion
    30 gm mustard seeds
1800 gm sauerkraut, rinsed and drained
  450 ml Moselland Bernkastler Kurfurstlay Riesling
salt and pepper


Instructions

Melt butter in a large pot, add onion and mustard seeds and cood on medium heat for about 8 minutes.  Add the sauerkraut and the wine and simmer gently for about 30 minutes.  Season to taste with salt and pepper. 

This dish goes well with roast ham or turkey.


Sweet Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

225 ml sweet white wine such as Muscat de Patras
110 ml water
250 gm sugar
350 gm fresh whole cranberries


Instructions

Simmer the wine, water and sugar together for five minutes.  Add the cranberries and cook gently until they burst.  Serve chilled or at room temperature with the holiday turkey, duck, or goose.


Hot Buttered Rum

Here is a recipe for the mix that lets you be ready to make multiple copies of hot buttered rum.

Ingredients

220 gm brown sugar
220  gm sugar
230 gm butter
600 gm vanilla ice cream

Instructions

Blend ingredients together and store in the freezer.  To make your hot buttered rum, put a spoonful or two in a mug or heavy glass, add 60 ml of Matusalem Gran Reserva or Matusalem Classico and top up with very hot water.


Mulled Wine

Ingredients

    1 750 ml bottle Achaia Clauss Demestica Red
    1 orange
    8 cloves
    2 sticks cinnamon
    1 star anise

Instructions

Stud the orange with the cloves. Gently heat the wine, clove studded orange, cinnamon, and star anise in a non-reactive pot until warm.  DO NOT BOIL.  Serve in mugs.


Last updated December 16, 2005