Serving Size : 11
Source:   Cooking Light, Nov/Dec 1994, page 104

Comments:   Drink from the healer's sleeve! As legend would have it, this beverage was once filtered through the "sleeve of Hippocrates," the 17th-century term for a conical filter that's made of linen, cotton, or wool.

Hippocrates was the famed Greek physician who probably observed that the more you drink, the less you speak, and, so over time (or many goblets), Hippocrates becomes "Ipocras."

Inexpensive wine with the screw-on cap is best for this sweet drink. Recipe can be doubled by starting with a 3-liter bottle, removing 1 cup of wine, and doubling the remaining ingredients.

1-1/2 liters dry white or red wine -- (1 bottle)
2/3 cup sugar
5 cloves garlic -- crushed
5 black peppercorns -- crushed
1 cinnamon stick -- (3-inch)
1 piece peeled gingerroot -- (1/2-inch) thinly sliced