Swedish Glögg » Greene Espel

Ingredients

• 2 bottles dry red wine
• 2 bottles Moscato (cheap and sweet)
• 1 pint sweet vermouth
• 2 tablespoons Angostura bitters
• 2 cups raisins
• Peelings of 1 orange
• 12 whole cardamoms, bruised in a mortar with a pestle or by covering with a towel and crushing with a rolling pin
• 10 whole cloves
• 1 piece (about 2 inches) of fresh ginger
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 ½ cups Aquavit
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 2 cups whole almonds, blanched and peeled