Tag: Christmas

knedlicky

  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 package yeast
  • 1 cup milk (warm)
  • 2 eggs
  • 8 slices rye bread (buttered, crust cut off)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 8 cloves crushed garlic
  1. Mix yeast with 1/4 cup water.
  2. Beat eggs into milk.
  3. Combine flour and salt.
  4. Make dough by adding liquid (water/yeast & eggs/milk) to the salt and flour. Add crushed garlic.
  5. Cut bread into small pieces (1cm x 1cm) and incorporate into dough.
  6. Divide into pieces roughly the size of a hockey puck.
  7. Fill a pot 3/4 full of water, bring the water to a boil.
  8. Add Knedlicky to boiling water, cook for approximately 15 minutes.

mulled wine

  • 750 ml red table wine
  • 1 black cardamom pod seeds
  • 1 tsp whole cloves
  • 1 nutmeg pod
  • 4 pieces cinnamon bark
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (not artificial)
  • 6 drops orange bitters or 1 clementine skin
  • 2 sprigs rosemary
  • 45 ml maple syrup
  • 45 ml apple cider
  • 250 ml aged port
  1. Add wine, bitters, vanilla, maple syrup, apple cider, and port to a pot or slow cooker and warm on the lowest setting.
  2. Mortar cardamom seeds, nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon bark into a finer powder.
  3. Put mortared ingredients in tea bag and add to liquid.
  4. Heat for 30 minutes, then remove the tea bag. Serve hot.
  5. Seal leftovers and consume within 2 days.