Hot Coffee Grog Food

COFFEE GROG

Steps:

• In a saucepan, melt the butter over low heat.
• Blend in the sugar, spices, and rum.
• Allow mixture to cool.
• Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator until ready to use.
• Place one piece of orange peel and one piece of lemon peel into each mug.
• Mix 3/4 cup coffee and 2 tablespoons cream together with 2 tablespoons of the spiced rum mixture in each mug (only 1 teaspoon of the spice mixture if you subbed extract for the rum).
• Top with whipped cream, if desired.

OLD-FASHIONED SWEDISH GLOGG

Steps:

• Heat the port wine over medium heat until just below the simmer point in a large stockpot with a lid. Add bourbon and rum, and bring back to just below simmering. Save the bottles and their caps for storing leftover glogg.
• While the wine and liquors are heating, place the cardamom, cinnamon stick, cloves, and orange peel onto the center of the square of cheesecloth. Gather together the edges of the cheesecloth, and tie with kitchen twine to secure.
• When mixture is very hot but not boiling, carefully light it with a long-handled match. Wearing a heatproof cooking mitt, carefully pour the sugar into the flames, and let the mixture burn for 1 minute. Put the lid on the stockpot to extinguish the flames, and turn off the heat. Let the mixture cool, covered, for about 10 minutes; add the cheesecloth bundle of spices and the raisins and almonds to the warm wine mixture and let it cool to room temperature, about 1 hour.
• Strain the cooled glogg and reserve the raisins and almonds.
• To store, pour strained glogg into the bottles, recap, and keep upright in a cool dark place for up to 1 year. Refrigerate the steeped raisins and almonds in a covered bowl or jar for up to 1 year.
• To serve, pour glogg into a saucepan and warm over low-medium heat until hot but not simmering, about 5 minutes. Ladle 3 ounces of warmed glogg into a small coffee cup or small Swedish-style glogg mug, and garnish each serving with a few reserved raisins and almonds.

COFFEE GROG

Steps:

• In a suacepan over low heat, melt the butter.
• Add brown sugar and spices. Allow to cool (mixture can now be stored in the refidgerator till ready to use).
• To serve combine 1 teaspoon butter mixture, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 strip of orange and lemon peel, 1/8 tsp rum extract and 6 ounces coffee.
• Stir well.

COFFEE GROG, NON ALCOHOLIC

Steps:

• Place one piece of each peel into cups.
• Mix butter, sugar, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon.
• Mix coffee and cream.
• Pour both mixtures into cups and stir.
• *NOTE: For the strips of peel I use a veggie peeler and take a good sized strip from the fruits trying NOT to include the white part.