During our shortest day ‘All about alliums’ gardening workshop taught by Zia Mays in the dim frosty light, I was inside preparing a garlic, leek and onion menu for my chilly guests. I took pity on them outside and from time to time, they were topped up with mugs of White Glogg to warm their hands and, of course, their insides. To find out more about planting onions, garlic, leeks please read this fascinating post on our Secret Garden Club blog. I’ve tried to plant onions and garlic before and never succeeded so this was a useful skill to learn. We also learnt about Walla Walla onions which are supposed to be so sweet you can eat them like an apple!
White Glogg Recipe:
Ingredients
- 1 bottle white wine
- 1 bottle apple juice
- 4 slugs vodka
- 2 cloves
- 10 all-spice berries
- 2 sticks Mexican cinnamon
- 400 g sugar.
- 1 apple, cored, cut into slices, cored and sliced.
- handful Pale green sultanas.
- I also threw in a couple of rosehips, gathered in the autumn, to bump up the Vitamin C.
Instructions
- Put all of the ingredients into a large saucepan and bring to the boil then turn down to simmer. I normally keep my glogg on the Aga hot plate where it reduces and I keep topping it up with new alcohol everytime I have a new batch of guests.
I was recently sent some black garlic cloves by a PR. These fermented cloves taste caramelised, almost sweet and balsamic. I thought they’d work well with chocolate as I was looking for an unusual onion, shallot or garlic dessert recipe for this ‘tea’.
Black Garlic Chocolate cookies
Ingredients
- 220 g unsalted butter
- 100 g brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
- 325 g flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- pinch salt
- 50-75 g Macadamia nuts, chopped
- 12 cloves Black garlic, finely chopped
- 350 g dark chocolate, cut up small or chocolate chips
- 75 g maple syrup
Instructions
- Beat together the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla essence.
- Sieve the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt into a bowl.
- Add the nuts, garlic and chocolate to the flour then stir all of the ingredients together adding the maple syrup.
- Put a tablespoon of mixture onto a silpat or silicone paper on a baking tray, spacing the cooking 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes at 190C. (Bottom shelf baking oven of the Aga).
Guests were sent home with a pot of chives and some ‘sets’ of plantable garlic and shallots.
great idea with the mincemeat! Definitely a time saver for sure. I am sure the cookies were delicious too, love garlic and I would have loved a garlic to plant 🙂
That cookies are delicious! I have just made them and I love them! 😀