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