Ingredients

  • 6small apples(cored)
  • 4 bottlesbrown ale(48 oz total)
  • 1 cupcream sherry
  • ½ cupbrown sugar(packed)
  • 4cinnamon sticks
  • 1 tspground ginger
  • ½ tspfreshly grated nutmeg

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Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F and roast cored apples until soft about 30 minutes
  2. In large pot gently heat ale sherry and brown sugar
  3. Add spices and warm for 15 minutes
  4. Place roasted apples in punch bowl
  5. Pour warm ale mixture over apples
  6. Serve warm in mugs with cinnamon stick garnish

📜 History

Wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon toast waes hael meaning be well or be healthy. Dating back over a thousand years, wassailing was a midwinter tradition where revelers would go door-to-door singing and offering drinks from their wassail bowl. It remains the quintessential Christmas and Twelfth Night celebration drink.