Carolers' Spiced Hot Apple Cider
By: Layne Diehl
Published: Sunday, January 2, 2011 - 12:21pm

Ingredients




1 gallon apple cider
8 ounces bag cinnamon candies (red hots)
3 cinnamon sticks
1 medium orange
1 cup cranberries
1 small lemon
1 small lime
10 wholes cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Preparation

1 Pour apple cider in bottom of coffee perculator. 2 Cut orange in half. Squeeze one half into cider and slice other half. 3 Cut lemon in half. Squeeze one half into cider and slice other half. 4 Cut lime in half.  Squeeze one half into cider and slice other half. 5 Arrange sliced fruit in top of perculator. 6 Stick cloves in fruit slices. 7 Sprinkle nutmeg over fruit slices. 8 Arrange cinnamon sticks over fruit. 9 Pour cinnamon candy and cranberries on top of fruit. 10 Start coffee perculator.

About


A warm and comforting holiday drink, rum and/or white wine can be added for an adult drink if desired.  I remember my mother making a version of this recipe several years when we would host a Christmas Carol party.