WITCHES' BREW

*Halloween Collection*
(Mulled Apple Cider)

6 cups cider
1-1/2 tsps cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp powdered cloves
1/2 cup brown sugar
+Whole cinnamon sticks

Heat cider, spices and sugar over low heat about 10 minutes, stirring to dissolve sugar. Serve in hot mugs with cinnamon stick stirrers (or, add 1 TB grated lemon rind and chill before serving). YIELD: 6 servings.

HALLOWEEN NOTE: Ask assembled guests to assist in making brew for all to drink. Line up guests and blindfold them. Pass down the line a hot baked potato, peeled grapes, a handful of cooked long spaghetti, a dried chestnut burr, an old leather glove, wet and full of soft mush, and an ice cube. Have each one guess what's going into the witches' brew. After the blindfolds are removed, serve mugs of this hot cider from the pot into which they have assumedly dropped the items passed from hand to hand while blindfolded.

(Source: Dorothy Dean & kappboom wallpaper photo)