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Red Wine Concoction

Ingredients

  • 1 Bottle of Red Wine
  • 2 Cups Caster Sugar
  • 750 ml Cream
  • 2 (small) limes
  • 2 sheets of leaf gelatin
  • 5 to 10 cardamom pods (depends on how much you like cardamom)

Instructions

  • Squeeze the limes and add the juice from same to red wine and then add sugar and cardamom pods
  • Gently heat the wine, lime, sugar and cardamom pods until the sugar dissolves
  • Remove cardamom pods from mixture
  • Let this mixture cool to room temperature
  • Soak sheets of leaf gelatin in cold water for approximately 10 minutes - until soft
  • Remove gelatin sheets from cold water, add to cooled wine/sugar/lime and mix until gelatin is dissolved
  • Using your whisk - or an electric mixture if that’s your thing - beat the cream into the wine/sugar/lime/gelatin until the concoction is mixed to a red, creamy froth
  • Put concoction in to wine glasses, refrigerate overnight

With a bit of luck, the mixture will have separated a bit in the fridge overnight, with a darker red gelatin at the base and a pinkish froth on top.

Eat with a few friends.  Or eat it all yourself but be warned that you might start seeing double. Or triple.

This is a modified syllabub - a recipe that has been traced back to the Tudors.