German Fire Tongs Punch | Feuerzangenbowle

A mulled wine that you light on fire with a rum-soaked sugar cone! Learn how to
make Feuerzangenbowle, a festive Christmas or New Year's drink from Germany that
is made with hot, spiced wine, a sugar cone called a Zucker Hut, and dark rum.

Servings: 10 people

Author:

Prep Time
5 minutes

Cook Time
30 minutes

Course:

Drinks Cocktail

Cuisine:

German

Keywords:

mulled wine Glühwein Feuerzangenbowle Flaming spiced wine German fire punch German fire tongs punch German Glühwein Glühwein mit Feuer spiced wine

🧂 Ingredients

1 liter red wine

8½ cups
2 oranges, sliced
2 lemons, sliced
2 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
1 Zucker Hut (sugar cone)

see note
475 ml dark rum (at least 54% alcohol per volume)

2 cups

Instructions

1 Place the wine, citrus fruits, and spices in a pot on the stove and let them
warm for about half an hour on low heat to allow all of the flavors to meld.
Don't let the wine get hotter than 70℃ / 160℉ to preserve the alcohol content of
the wine.
2 Pour the warm wine into some kind of warming pot, like a circular chafing dish
or a Feuerzangenbowle set (see note), and place a grate over the top of the pot
(see note). Place the sugar cone on top of the grate and soak the sugar cone
with some of the rum.
3 Carefully light the sugar cone on fire with a match. As the flame begins to die
down, pour more rum over it to keep it alight until all of the sugar cone has
dissolved.
4 Remove the grate with oven mitts once the sugar cone has dissolved and ladle the
hot wine into mugs and serve!