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Cranberry Hot Toddies
If your grocer only carries sweetened cranberry juice, be sure to omit the sugar from the recipe. Steer clear of cranberry juice cocktail drinks; they're mostly sugar and water and don't pack that true cranberry taste.

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Recipe courtesy Gourmet Magazine featured on Food Network's Cooking Live

Ingredients:

4 tangerines
1/2 cup whole cloves
3 quarts pure, unsweetened cranberry juice
2 cups sugar, or to taste
3 cups amber rum

Directions:

  1. Cut tangerines crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick rounds and remove seeds.
  2. Stud rind of each tangerine round with 4 or 5 cloves.
  3. In a large saucepan simmer cranberry juice, tangerine rounds, and sugar, covered, 5 minutes and stir in rum.
  4. Serve toddies with clove-studded tangerine rounds in heatproof glasses.
Servings: Four cocktails.

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