Mulled Cider à la Pumpkin Pie

Name: Mulled Cider à la Pumpkin Pie
Yield: Serves 8 (Makes about 2 quarts)
Ingredients: 2 , cinnamon sticks, broken into pieces; 1/2 teaspoon, whole allspice berries; 1/8 teaspoon, fresh ground nutmeg; 1/4 teaspoon, whole cloves; 2 quarts, apple cider; 1 , vanilla bean, split in half and seeds scraped out; 1 - 3 tablespoons, light brown sugar or dark brown sugar (to taste)

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2006

Beverages

Pumpkin pie flavors work well with cider.

SERVES8 (Makes about 2 quarts)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted a Mulled Cider à la Pumpkin Pie recipe that didn’t taste dusty and muddy. For the perfect blend of spices (and a method for infusing the cider that wouldn’t take hours) we turned to whole spices, which we toasted briefly in a skil...

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