Tag: Mulled Wine

Budapest Christmas Market: Vörösmarty Square

| December 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
Budapest Christmas Market: Vörösmarty Square

Every year before Christmas, Vörösmarty Square is transformed into a festival of light and colour. More than 100 wooden pavilions are set-up offering handmade porcelain, wooden boxes and toys, jewelry and traditional weavings. The market also has a variety of food and drink specialities such as forralt bor (mulled wine), kürtoskalács (sweet Hungarian pastry), roast [...]

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Mulled wine

| November 17, 2009 | 6 Comments
Mulled wine

This popular hot spiced wine is served during the cold winter months throughout Germany and Europe. It is made with red wine and seasoned with cinnamon, cloves, citrus and sugar. At the markets, vendors will offer various additions to the mulled wine, such as a shot of rum, amaretto, or elderberry cordial. An alcohol-free version [...]

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