{"id":6492,"date":"2013-01-18T23:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T06:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2013-01-18T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T06:43:42","slug":"mulled-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6492","title":{"rendered":"Mulled wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had some opened and forgotten wine, so I made a half batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamieoliver.com\/recipes\/uncategorised-recipes\/jamie-s-mulled-wine\">Jaime Oliver&#8217;s mulled wine recipe<\/a>, altered for what we had on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n2 oranges\t<\/li>\n<li>\n1 lemon for zest<\/li>\n<li>\n200 g caster sugar<\/li>\n<li>\n6 whole cloves<\/li>\n<li>\n1 stick cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>\n1 dried bay leaf<\/li>\n<li>\n1 whole nutmeg, for grating<\/li>\n<li>\n1 tsp vanilla pur\u00c3\u00a9e <\/li>\n<li>\n2 star anise<\/li>\n<li>\n1 bottle Italian red wine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zest both oranges, squeeze one into a saucepan.  Zest lemon.  Combine all ingredients but the wine and star anise.  Wet the ingredients with enough wine to cover.<\/p>\n<p>Dissolve sugar with heat and whisk, simmer until it&#8217;s a thicker syrup.  Eat the remaining orange while you wait.  Make an Arnold Palmer or something with the lemon.<\/p>\n<p>Dump in the rest of the wine and the star anise.  Heat until warm (5 minutes).  Serve!<\/p>\n<p>Know what else is good in this?  Cranberries!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to use a strainer like I did or you&#8217;ll be spitting out cloves and orange peel all night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had some opened and forgotten wine, so I made a half batch of Jaime Oliver&#8217;s mulled wine recipe, altered for what we had on hand. Ingredients 2 oranges 1 lemon for zest 200 g caster sugar 6 whole cloves 1 stick cinnamon 1 dried bay leaf 1 whole nutmeg, for grating 1 tsp vanilla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}