Apple & Ale Mull

Serves 8


Ingredients:

1kg cooking apples
5 cup (1.25litre) ginger ale or ginger beer
6 whole cloves
1 blade mace
1 tsp grated nutmeg
½ tsp ground ginger
3 strips orange peel
red and green apple slices and lemon slices, to decorate


Method:

• Preheat oven to 200°C (400°F). Wash apples and remove stalks. Arrange on a baking sheet and cook in the oven for 30-40 minutes until soft. Place apples in a saucepan and mash them. Add ginger ale or ginger beer, cloves, mace, nutmeg, ginger and orange peel. Bring to boil, remove from heat and leave until cool. Strain apple mixture through a nylon sieve into a bowl, pressing through as much apple as possible.
• Just before serving, return apple and ale mixture to a clean saucepan and heat until hot enough to drink. Float red and green apple slices and lemon slices on top and serve ib heatproof glasses or mugs.