Welcome guests to the festivities with a tasty drink!
This wintertime serenade for apple trees also involves firing rifles and drinking cider.
Wassail is a festive holiday drink, and wassailing is the predecessor of Christmas caroling. When you understand wassailing, the carols make more sense.
Ready to start wassailing? Not even sure what wassailing is? Here's everything you need to know to get a good wassail going.
A jester in red and blue costume, carrying a wassail bowl and enjoying the aroma coming from it. Wassail was a medieval drink, a kind of punch made from hot mulled cider, traditionally drunk at Christmas. Our beautiful pictures are available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Photo Gifts #MediaStorehouse
This wintertime serenade for apple trees also involves firing rifles and drinking cider.
Wassail is a traditional drink that dates back to the Middle Ages! Warming, spicy and delicious- perfect for chilly nights.
“Here We Come A-Wassailing” While the song is better known as “Here We Go A-Caroling” to some, wassail is a spiked, mulled hot punch that is usually made with cider or wine, cinnamon, cloves, sugar and apples. The Middle Age toast “Waes hail” or “to your health” would be employed when handing someone a drink. The proper response was “drinc hail” or “drink to your health.” Thus, wassail can also simply mean to merrymake or raise one’s glass. Manheim Steamroller Acoustic Version Instructions on how to actually make Wassail (In both Metric & US Measurements!!!) Involves Ale ! Crockpot Wassail 8 cups apple juice or cider 2 cups cranberry juice 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup sugar 2 oranges Whole cloves 1 apple, peeled and diced 1 teaspoon Allspice 1 teaspoon Ginger 1 teaspoon Nugmet 3 cinnamon sticks (or 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon) 1/2 cup - 1 cup brandy (optional)Turn the crockpot on high and pour in the apple cider (or juice) and cranberry juice. Mix in the honey and sugar until dissolved. Stud the oranges with the cloves (25 to 30 should do the trick) and place in the pot. Add the diced apple, Allspice, Ginger and Nutmeg. Finally, snap the cinnamon sticks in half and add those as well. Cover the pot and cook on high for 1 hour. Change the setting to low and allow to simmer for 3 more hours. About half an hour prior to serving, add the Brandy if you choose to use it. Garnish with slices of orange or lemon... Nice Hammer Dulcimer Version Well then! I think we've pretty much covered all things Wassail! Here we come a-wassailing among the leaves so green. Here we come a-wand'ring so fair to be seen. Love and joy come to you, and to all your wassail, too, may God bless you, and send you a Happy New Year, God send you a Happy New Year.
As I become a more experienced cook, the more I enjoy working with pastry. Over the past year, I have mastered the art of pie crust, homemade puff pastry, and croissant dough which I am really excited to share more about in the coming months with you! I have no formal training, of course, but I have
A traditional English Wassail recipe that originates from Suffolk which is a delectable hot, spiced mulled cider with sherry and port and is served with the all important baked apples. A Yorkshire version called "Lamb's Wool" is made with ale instead of cider and is served when the apples have burst, so the pulp looks like lamb's wool in the mulled ale.
Wassail is a festive holiday drink, and wassailing is the predecessor of Christmas caroling. When you understand wassailing, the carols make more sense.
Members of the Leominster Morris take part in a torch-lit wassailing ceremony ahead of Twelfth Night.
A traditional English Wassail recipe that originates from Suffolk which is a delectable hot, spiced mulled cider with sherry and port and is served with the all important baked apples. A Yorkshire version called "Lamb's Wool" is made with ale instead of cider and is served when the apples have burst, so the pulp looks like lamb's wool in the mulled ale.
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Wassail is an ancient brew for dreaming and protection, celebration and healing, and for welcoming in a new season and year of potential. Wassail is a celebratory drink with Pagan roots that pre-dates christianity in its origin with stories that stretch across the British Isles. In the Norse traditi
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Cornish Wassail Song
Twelfth Night, Apples and Wassailing: A Traditional English Wassail Recipe Twelfth Night is just a day away as I write, and I am minded to share an old English recipe with you today, a recipe that wi
Make a traditional Wassail to enjoy on cool winter nights and keep you warm. This recipe yields about 4 cocktails, depending on how much of the warm cider you use per drink.
Wassail! Wassail! all over the town,Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown;Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree;With the wassailing bowl, we’ll drink to thee.A Gloucestershire W…
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For our first wassailing celebration, we head to Surrey and discover tree magic and ancient rituals passed along the centuries.
Old-fashioned holiday charm runs deep during Woodstock, Vermont's annual Wassail Weekend. Here's what to know about Christmas in Vermont, and why so many people flock to Woodstock each December!
A traditional English Wassail recipe that originates from Suffolk which is a delectable hot, spiced mulled cider with sherry and port and is served with the all important baked apples. A Yorkshire version called "Lamb's Wool" is made with ale instead of cider and is served when the apples have burst, so the pulp looks like lamb's wool in the mulled ale.
Information about the Wassail EP by Big Big Train. Release notes and tracklisting can be found on this page.
Wassail is a warm, spiced punch that’s traditionally served when celebrating the ancient English Yuletide tradition of the same name.
The nights may be growing colder, but things are heating up down at Willie Smith's Apple Shed for this year's Huon Valley Mid-Winter Fest. Wassail!!
This wintertime serenade for apple trees also involves firing rifles and drinking cider.
If you ventured outside last Saturday night within earshot of an apple orchard, you might have heard the raucous sounds of caped revelers banging pots, ringing tambourines, and raising joyous voice…
Have you ever heard of “wassail”? Traditionally wassail is a warm drink composed of fruit (usually apple) and spices and sometimes liquor. “Wassail” was an Old English salutation which mean “be in good health” or “be fortunate” and was said when presenting a drink to another person. Our family has made wassail around the holidays […]
