Swedish Glogg(Beverage) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 bottle Port wine
1 bottle Madeira
1 bottle sherry
15 whole cloves
15 cardamom seed
1/2 lb. block or cubed sugar
1 shot glass cognac
1 stick cinnamon

Preparation

Wrap herbs in cheesecloth.
Let herbs steep in Port wine, Madeira and sherry a couple of hours in a big pot.
Heat up slowly. Take sugar and place on a rack over the pot with the herbs and wine mixture.
(You can also place the sugar in a metal conical sieve.) Heat cognac in a small pot; pour hot cognac over sugar (light it), then ladle wine mixture over burning sugar until dissolved.
Cover; heat to boiling.
Pour through a strainer.