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Title: Help with ingredients for mulled wine please
Post by: Tasty on June 25, 2014, 12:42:11 pm

I want to make the mulled wine from QFITT book. I don't have early grey tea....would it affect the flavour too much if I used another flavour like english breakfast or regular Dilmah tea?

Also you need dark muscovado sugar.........not sure what that is exactly but I have brown sugar, raw sugar, rapadura sugar....which is the same thing or suitable alternative?

Title: Re: Help with ingredients for mulled wine please
Post by: Cornish Cream on June 25, 2014, 02:48:10 pm

Use very weak brewed Breakfast Tea if that is all you have in your cupboard.Earl Grey is a delicate tea flavoured with Bergamot.
Muscovado is dark sugar cane sugar,so I would use raw sugar.

There is also a recipe on the UK Thermomix website for Mulled Wine (http://www.recipecommunity.co.uk/recshow.php?rec_id=13).I've drunk that and eaten the sorbet and they are very good.

Title: Re: Help with ingredients for mulled wine please
Post by: Cuilidh on June 25, 2014, 09:08:36 pm

I am not a tea drinker, so this may not be helpful and you may have already found some, but I would imagine you could order good Earl Gray tea from T2 or specialist tea shops such as Storm In A Teacup here in Melbourne.  If you were doing this I think the minimum quantity could be too large for your needs.

Title: Re: Help with ingredients for mulled wine please
Post by: Tasty on June 30, 2014, 08:48:45 am

Thanks CC. I was impatient and made the mulled wine before reading your reply. It didn't turn out the best due to a number of ingredient changes. I ended up using Lady Grey tea which sounded similar to earl grey. I forgot to include the orange juice I squeezed and apparently the brandy I used wasn't a good one to include, according to hubby.

Oh well, hopefully I have better luck next time.