 Poster: A snowHead
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Can anyone out there give me a simple straightforward recipe for vin chaud. I need to make a vat of it for our rowing outing this Sunday and every recipe I've looked up involves 1,000 + 1 spices 
I thought of just heating red wine, orange peel and some cinnamon sticks. No?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Take cheap wine and orange juice, I use 80% red & 18% white & 2% OJ.
Take some oranges, push cloves into the orange - releases orange flavour and as the orange rolls around the cloves get crushed and realease their flavour. Also looks pretty.
Add ground cinamon & a little ground ginger. To taste.
Add lots of sugar.
Heat gently for as long as you can.
Simple enough? Schwatrz also make a tea bag style thing you can use but it will be more expensive than buying the simple ingredients above^
For decoration you might as well throw in some cinamon sticks. I quite like raisons & walnuts in mine.
If you want to make it stronger or you need to hide the taste of horrible wine add some sherry / port or any other similar fortified wine or spirit...
I'm in Hammersmith if you want to borrow a very large saucepan (around 10-13 litres) if you need it...
enjoy 
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Thanks for this. Have now been shopping. Waitrose did have the little spice bags, but they smelt dreadful!
Have bought cloves, oranges, cinnamon sticks, some sugar cubes and some bottles of Grenache wine.
Personally, there are some things best left on the mountain and I just know it is not going to taste the same in a cold damp boathouse as it would in a steamed up mountain bar!
Thanks for the offer of the pan. I'm in Henley, so will have to make do! 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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My recipe is go to nearest glühwein stall and pay 2 euros  Comes in a rather festive mug too
Failing that, same as parlor's recipe, but if you have a good litre or so, and want to give it a kick, then add a shot of stroh rum. I'd only do that for cold days, at a party, and no-one is driving.
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try Pimms winter - just add apple juice and a few bits of apple and orange. very simple and incredibly moreish.
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Better still - Bombardino:
1 part Vov (or advocaat if no vov to hand), 1 part Brandy, 2-4 parts HOT milk, add whipped cream and sprinkle with chocolate - ummmmmmmmmmmm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuumumumumumumumumumumumumumumumum
yummy!
(and after 4 of those I'l have a go at any black you can throw me down)
ummmmmumumumumu
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Beverley, If you can get to a Cash and Carry buy a 10litre wine box and use that. Shame to muller a decent (or half) red !
Parlor when you off to Verbier then?
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Not until the 28th. Getting very excited.
The guy we rent the chalet is using the place for his family over Christmas & NY, selfish I think. First Christmas with our families for a while, they're very happy.
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Red wine, brandy, orange juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, slices of orange. Worked for us- we have the nicest Vin Chaud still on the hob, we just top it up, its lush
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