Tonight we had our house December party. Because of the break and it being a hectic time, instead of a full dinner, we had drinks and dessert. We had ice cream, pumpkin and peppermint flavours, and a surprise gingerbread house, and feuerzangenbowle.

Sabine told us about a German holiday drink that is called fire-tongs-punch in Deutsch. Tonight we tried to make it.

Essentially, it is mulled wine: red wine with the citrus, lemon, lime, orange, and spices, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, coriander, ,but then is the fiery part. You put a special device across the top of your pot (fire tongs), we used a metal cheese grater, and place a zuckerhut on it. a sugar hat , a cone of sugar. I hear in Deutschland you can buy them, but I had to make one out of sugar and a bit of water. Then you pour rum spirits of about 54% alcohol over it and light it on fire, it melts into the wine sweetening it and putting on a conflagratory show.