Our local Kroger grocery store has a shelf filled with Glögg so of course we had to buy a bottle to try it. I think we plan on trying it plain and to make it a southern style we want to try it with some Southern Comfort added. ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
Now all you need are pepparkakor (gingerbread cookies) and you'll be having a Swedish Christmas! And I'm typing from a Swedish keyboard so I can give you some of these... ö ö ö ö ö I love glögg.
Frank i love the Spicy taste!,as my son and grandchildren live in Stockholm,i have had Glogg several times,..oops sorry no dots!. Toni, here is a recipe for Glogg. Glogg Recipe - A Recipe for Glogg
Thanks for the ö Frank, copy/paste is a wonderful thing. We couldn't find any info on how to create that with Linux. We love Gingerbread, back to the grocery store for some cookies. Oh, great recipe. Thanks Philip. Ours is non-alcoholic since our grocery store doesn't have a liquor license, that's why we thought we would add some of our own. While I am at the store getting the gingerbread cookies, I can get the ingredients and make us some for xmas eve.
I don't think any of our stores have such a thing Toni. I'll take a look though once the snow clears as I'd like to try something new that's non-alcoholic.
We are fortunate in that the Tehuacana Creek Winery (pronounced "Tee-who-a-cahn-a) is just a bit down the road from us (www.wacowinery.com) and Ulf and Inga-Lil make a marvelous Glögg. Inga-Lil, who is a gourmet cook, also makes a traditional Swedish ginger cookie to go with it. Their wine-tastings are a full meal! They're Swedish, if you hadn't guessed. We have two bottles, just in case it gets cold here in Texas (if it doesn't, I'm turning on the air conditioning!). We like to warm it a bit, and have it with cheese and crackers, or shortbread, or toasted pecans. You're going to love it, Toni! If it is non-alcoholic, a little SC won't hurt. Frank, thank you for the umlauts.
Hey Toni--If you want to make o's with dots...hold down the left ALT button while you type in 0246 on the square of numbers over to the right on your keyboard. For the large ´O´ hold down the ALT button while you type in 0214. Easy-peasy.
Sjoerd, I have Linux instead of Windows so those symbol makers won't work for me. :'( We tried them all.
Will you heat it in a saucepan first Toni? That's the way we used to have it. Required when it gets cold outside.
Oooooooooooh, I see Toni. You know Frank, I never knew that one would drink it any other way but warm. I had a Sweedish girlfriend once and do you know that she never told me that people sometimes drank it unwarmed. I reckon that perhaps I should have stayed with her a little while longer, eh?
Ah, gløgg! That's a beverage I like, with or without red wine. It thaws us out in no time after a cold day outside. We often put chopped almonds and raisins in it. We drink a fair amount of it before Christmas, especially when we're engaged in parcel wrapping, wreath making and such. I think I'll ask my husband to make us some to drink while we decorate the tree. Yes, of course, pepperkaker or julemenn is a must.
Oh that Glogg brings back memories of my Grandparents. My Mom's family is Swedish,(so I am also!) and it was always part of the holiday celebrations. The pepperkaker also. YUM Then there was the oyster stew, and Lutefisk. Not so yummy, but an ever present part of the festivities.
Since I'm a curious person I need to ask: Next to the Enter-button on the left on your keyboard, is there a key with a ^ and a ~ on it? On that key I've got two dots that will make the dots over the ö if I remember to press the ¨ first.
On the upper left corner I have a key that will make ` or ~ The ^ is on the #6 key but there is no key with double dots on it. My Enter button is on the right side of the keyboard.
Sorry, right side. You understand why I'm never asked to read road maps... We might end up in Siberia instead of in France.
