Adapted from a recipe in Better Homes and Gardens 500 Five-Ingredient
Recipes, 2002.
Ingredients
1½ teaspoons brown sugar
1 clove (or a scant 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves)
1 cinnamon stick (or a scant 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon)
2.5 ounces dry white wine
Heat the first four ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring the mix to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for five minutes uncovered. Remove the clove and cinnamon stick. If you've used ground spices you can leave them in the punch. Add the wine and heat the mixture. Serve in a glass or a punch cup.
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Val and Granddad attend a mystery fan fest that features a bake-off between contestants playing the roles of cooks to fictional sleuths. As Nero Wolfe’s gourmet chef, Granddad competes against Sherlock Holmes's landlady Mrs. Hudson, played by Cynthia Sweet. Granddad blames her for ripping off the five-ingredient theme of his Codger Cook newspaper column to use in her own recipe column and cookbook. When she’s found dead in her hotel room with a whistling teakettle next to her, he and Val sort through the festival-goers to find the one with the biggest beef against Ms. Not-So-Sweet.
Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries featuring café manger Val and her live-wire grandfather solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Maya lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Before writing crime fiction, she taught American literature, writing, and detective fiction at Northern Virginia Community College and Georgetown University. When not reading and writing, she enjoys theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords.
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I do enjoy sampling punch at a party.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the recipe!
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Thanks for commenting! I hope you enjoy the Miss Scarlet punch.
DeleteI do like punches. My favorite hot tea is Yogi's Throat Comfort. It has slippery elm in it and is great at soothing my voice if I've had a talkative day.
ReplyDeleteI'll look for Yogi's Throat Comfort. Thanks for the suggestion. ~ Maya
DeleteThis sounds awfully nice, Maya. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
ReplyDeleteHot black tea is my go to drink.
ReplyDeleteThat said, mulled wine, glogg, grog, etc. are very temptimg libations.
This recipe sounds just about right!