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
Simple Hot Spiced Cider
Ingredients
- 2 quarts apple juice fresh-pressed is lovely!
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 4 cinnamon sticks
Instructions
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While stirring, heat juice, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg over medium heat until quite warm.
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Pour into 4 mugs.
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Add a cinnmon stick to each.
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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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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!
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.
Also, you don’t have to use the cinnamon stick at all. 🙂
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!
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.
Thank you for sharing that, Elisabeth! 🙂
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!
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
Jamie — MMmmm, what a wonderful blessing and what a wonderful idea! 🙂
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