Archive recipe

Sangaree

Name: Sangaree
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 bottle red wine; 2 tbsp sugar; 1/2 tsp nutmeg; 1 cup water; 1 lemon

Wine or porter sweetened with sugar and spice, a cool drink of the colonial tavern.

Sangaree was a tavern drink of wine or porter with sugar, nutmeg, and a little water or ice. It was popular in the southern colonies and appears in the account books of the founding era.

The dish

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Sangaree

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Produce

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Pantry / Durable

1 bottlered wine
2 tbspsugarChecked by You

Spices & Seasoning

½ tspnutmeg

Other

1 cupwater

Cooking Instructions

Pour the wine into a jug and stir in the sugar until dissolved.
Add the nutmeg, a strip of lemon peel, and the water.
Chill the mixture well, or shake it with ice.
Serve in small glasses with a grating of nutmeg on top.

Served at

The young Frenchman's supper · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania