Hot Spiced Cider

Hot Spiced Cider is the perfect fall or winter drink. A steaming mug of delicious spiced cider will warm the kids after a chilly evening of “trick or treating.” The spices and cider brewing fill your home with the aroma of cinnamon, orange and allspice.

Hot Spiced Cider

6 cups fresh apple cider
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
2 cinnamon sticks, broken into pieces
6 Watkins Whole Cloves
6 whole allspice
6 strips orange peel
6 strips lemon peel

Pour the apple cider and maple syrup into a large stainless steel saucepan. Place the cinnamon sticks, cloves, allspice, orange peel and lemon peel in the center of a clean square of cheesecloth; fold up the sides of the cheesecloth to enclose the bundle, then tie it up with a length of kitchen string. Drop the spice bundle into the cider mixture.

Place the saucepan over moderate heat for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the cider is very hot but not boiling.

Remove the cider from the heat. Discard the spice bundle. Ladle the cider into big cups or mugs, adding a fresh cinnamon stick to each serving.

Watkins Cider Brew, a blend of spices and dried orange peel, make hot spiced cider simple to brew. Just pour hot cider over cider brew spices; let steep for 5 minutes. Strain and enjoy.

Cider Brew is one of our Holiday Gift and Entertaining Products.

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Eleisia Whitney has a Watkins Home Business. She enjoys cooking and baking with Watkins extracts, spices, herbs, and sauces for healthy meals. Eleisia publishes a Watkins Newsletter, “Around the Kitchen Table,” that brings you recipes, cooking and health tips, and contests for free Watkins products. Read the current issue at http://www.everydaynecessities.com/oct15-06newsletter.htm.
Visit her at http://www.everydaynecessities.com/ and
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