Boiled Cider

Ingredients

• 1 new sweet cider
• 1–2 clove
• 1 grain allspice
• 1 blade mace
• sugar

Instructions

1. Reduce new sweet cider by half through gentle boiling, skimming it clean as it boils. Once reduced, pour into bottles, adding a clove or two, a grain of allspice, and a blade of mace to each bottle. Cork and seal the bottles, then keep in a cool place.
2. Variant: Add sugar towards the end of the boiling process, enough to make a thinnish syrup, which can be served as a sauce for simple desserts.