My Feuerzangenbowle for cold days

This post shows you our favourite Feuerzangenbowle recipe, which is perfect for cold days.Traditionally we do Feuerzangenbowle for New Years Eve.
We hope you enjoy it. Please drink sensibly.

Here we go, we need for our Feuerzangenbowle: 2 Bottles of Red Wine, Rum (more than 40% proof), 1 Sugar Cone ca. 250g to 300g , 2 Oranges, 2 Lemons, Cloves,

1 Feuerzange, which will hold the sugar cone ( you can either buy a proper one or make one yourself, as we did - see picture. The metal needs to be long enough to fit over your pot and the side slit needs to fit onto the pot rim to hold it in place. The metal is bent in the middle, so the sugar will run down through the central slit)

Cut one of the lemons into slices and stick the cloves into one slice so that they do not go into the cup later...slice one of the oranges as well.

Put the Red Wine into a pot, squeeze the remaining Orange and the Lemon and add the juice to the Red Wine. Add the orange slices and lemon slices. heat together slowly on low heat, don't allow to boil.

When heated through, put the pot on a warmer to keep the wine warm. Soak the sugar cane with rum by holding it over the pot and soaking it carefully from the bottom,

then put it onto the Feuerzange and pour more rum over it.

Set alight and be careful not to burn yourself or others as the flames can get quite high.

Keep pouring rum with a ladle onto the sugar cone until the entire sugar cone has melted into the pot.

Remove the Feuerzange from the pot and fill up the cups (pre-heated cups would be best).

Taste the Feuerzangenbowle before serving to your guests to ensure all is fine I hope you enjoy it, Ralf