I have been looking around for a wassail recipe. So far, I have learned that there are many variations of it, which may or may not include cider, brandy, eggs, or a number of other things as well. It can also be simple or complicated, depending on cooking down apples in the oven, ingredients, or just putting it all in a slow cooker.I'm hoping for a simple traditional recipe. Any ideas?
Wassail
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This is the recipe from the Colonial Williamsburg Cookbook. It served at one of the Inns there. I serve it at most famly gatherings in the winter and it's a hit.
WASSAIL
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1 cup sugar
4 cinnamon sticks
3 lemon slices
2 cups pineapple juice
2 cups orange juice
6 cups dry red wine
½ cup lemon juice
1 cup dry sherry
2 lemons, sliced for garnish
Make a flavored simple syrup by boiling the sugar cinnamon sticks, and 3 lemon slices in ½ cup of water for 5 minutes. Discard cinnamon sticks and lemon slices. Heat the remaining ingredients, together with the sugar syrup in a large pot. DO NOT BOIL. (Alcohol boils out at 173°F)
Keep warm in with a crock pot set to low – serve in mugs or glasses with handles. Garnish each serving with lemon slices.
WASSAIL
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1 cup sugar
4 cinnamon sticks
3 lemon slices
2 cups pineapple juice
2 cups orange juice
6 cups dry red wine
½ cup lemon juice
1 cup dry sherry
2 lemons, sliced for garnish
Make a flavored simple syrup by boiling the sugar cinnamon sticks, and 3 lemon slices in ½ cup of water for 5 minutes. Discard cinnamon sticks and lemon slices. Heat the remaining ingredients, together with the sugar syrup in a large pot. DO NOT BOIL. (Alcohol boils out at 173°F)
Keep warm in with a crock pot set to low – serve in mugs or glasses with handles. Garnish each serving with lemon slices.
Do you want cider or wine based? And by cider I mean the proper stuff that's actually alcoholic! From what I gather it's a relatively unused term for mulled cider
Do you know I've been going to farm wassails for many years here in Gloucestershire and have never heard of a drink called wassail!
Here it's a ceremony with much noise and drinking and pouring of cider around the apple trees to encourage a good crop next year. Did I mention much drinking?
WAES HAEL...
Gareth
Here it's a ceremony with much noise and drinking and pouring of cider around the apple trees to encourage a good crop next year. Did I mention much drinking?
WAES HAEL...
Gareth
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Bloody'ell, strongbow mixed with London pride? That'll rot your guts in no time. Try it with a better quality cider (I.e. most certainly not strongbow, which I'm not sure has ever seen an apple in its life)
edit - I'd be tempted to try it with a still scrumpy (cider) and a honey ale in place of the booze in that recipe
edit - I'd be tempted to try it with a still scrumpy (cider) and a honey ale in place of the booze in that recipe
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Snakebite! Horrible memories of student days on that mix! Mind you, we had proper scrumpy for it. They can't get the real cider in the states as far as I know. There may be a few micro producers springing up of course but I very much doubt they'd get proper scrumpy which I always drink far too much at when I go to the local apple orchard wassails - and I'm supposed to be playing my squeezebox for the Gloucestershire Wassail song!
Gareth
I worked behind a bar for years at a biker pub and we used to make "Arsehole's Snakebite" - half a pint of a scrumpy called Red Diesel that was between 8 and 9% and half a pint of Stella. Bloody lethal that was! I wish we had some orchards around here
