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Simple Hot Spiced Cider

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Simple Hot Spiced Cider | Put this simple and fragrant cider on the burner for family or friends to enjoy while you’re visiting. It’s easy and delicious, and especially lovely when you use fresh-pressed apples! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Planning your Thanksgiving menu or a fall menu? Put this simple and fragrant cider on the burner for family or friends to enjoy while you’re visiting. It’s easy and delicious, and especially lovely when you use fresh-pressed apples! Be sure to let me know if you add anything extra special to your spiced cider, beyond the usual cinnamon and nutmeg. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Simple Hot Spiced Cider

Serves 4 (2 cup servings).
Course Beverage
Servings 4
Author Wardee Harmon

Ingredients

  • 2 quarts apple juice fresh-pressed is lovely!
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 4 cinnamon sticks

Instructions

  1. While stirring, heat juice, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg over medium heat until quite warm.
  2. Pour into 4 mugs.
  3. Add a cinnmon stick to each.
  4. Enjoy with loved ones.

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Happy Thanksgiving! What do you put in your hot cider? How is your Thanksgiving menu shaping up?

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Posted in: Celebrations Drinks & Smoothies Drinks & Smoothies (Gluten-Free) Food Preparation Recipes

About Wardee Harmon

Wardee lives in the Boise area of Idaho with her dear family. She's the lead teacher and founder of the Eat God's Way online cooking program as well as the author of Fermenting, Sourdough A to Z, and other traditional cooking books. Eat God's Way helps families get healthier and happier using cooking methods and ingredients from Bible Times like sourdough, culturing, and ancient grains.

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  1. Malenksha says

    November 24, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    My husband loves warm cider! But, perhaps a silly question… can you reuse the cinnamon stick? Money being tight right now I’m thinking we won’t be able to pull off that part of it. I’m going to try to treat him to this anyway. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!

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    • Wardee Harmon says

      November 24, 2013 at 2:49 pm

      Malenksha — Oh, yes, definitely! You can also put the cinnamon stick in the cider as it simmers. After a few hours it will be spent.

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    • Wardee Harmon says

      November 24, 2013 at 2:50 pm

      Also, you don’t have to use the cinnamon stick at all. 🙂

      Reply
      • Malenksha says

        November 29, 2013 at 12:54 pm

        Excellent! Thank you! 🙂 The month has outstretched our budget (we are paid monthly) so next month I will *definitely* be doing this as a treat for my hard-working husband!

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    • Elisabeth says

      November 25, 2013 at 3:25 pm

      It is very easy to know when a cinnamon stick can be reused and when it is spent. If it still smells like cinnamon, it is ready for reuse. If it smells like nothing, it is done. It is fun to watch the cinnamon uncurl and recurl as they are heated and cooled.

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      • Wardee Harmon says

        November 26, 2013 at 6:18 am

        Thank you for sharing that, Elisabeth! 🙂

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      • Malenksha says

        November 29, 2013 at 12:55 pm

        Oooh, thanks Elisabeth! At the grocery store this morning, my boys spotted bulk cinnamon sticks (the cheaper kind) in the produce department. We’ll be back in a week to pick some up for next month… even just once to try it I think would be pretty neat!

        Reply
  2. Jamie says

    November 26, 2013 at 6:00 pm

    Dear Wardeh-Happy Thanksgiving to you all, also! Having been gifted with lots of grapes this year, we juiced them and froze jarfuls. Now when we want apple cider, we thaw some grape juice and use the classic apple cider spices and enjoy nice warm grape cider! : ) Waste not, want not. The Lord gave us grapes. Not apples. Enjoy feasting! Regards-Jamie

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    • Wardee Harmon says

      November 28, 2013 at 5:42 am

      Jamie — MMmmm, what a wonderful blessing and what a wonderful idea! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Richard J. Rawski says

    November 22, 2022 at 11:51 am

    Thank you Wardeh, ( Wardee) for this recipe and also the thanksgiving by Ralf Waldo Emerson.
    I really enjoyed reading the comments also. looking forward into digging deeper into your recipe ideas

    Reply

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