Wassail Recipes

[Deerwoman]

There are hundreds of different wassail and lamb's wool recipes out there. This is mine which I based on an Old English one that uses Ale:

6 cups of dry cider (Strongbow or Blackthorn is excellent)
1 cup dark brown sugar
4 apples
1 lemon
1 knob of fresh ginger (1 Tbsp of slices)
2 cinnamon sticks
3 cloves

Core the apples and shove a lemon wedge down each hole. Roast the apples in the oven until they are squishy and the skins start losing colour. Pour the cider into a stew pot, add the sugar, remaining lemon wedges, sliced ginger and spices. Bring to a boil.

If you're having a party place the roasted apples in your slow cooker (dutch oven) and pour the hot wassail mixture over them. Plug in the cooker and stick a ladle in for your guests to self-serve. If you will be drinking it right out of the stew pot then add the roasted apples with all their baking juices last. Give the mixture a good stir and ladle it out.

It's very yummy and it didn't last long at my Yule feast. It's also good to make just for you and a loved one to cozy up with on a cold winter night.Anyone else have a favourite wassail recipe? Does anyone wassail trees or their fruit orchards at the solstice?

Wassail! :viking:

[ainecrea]

oooh will keep this for next year! Thank you

[Astara Seague]

Heres a couple

Heat a large container of ale or beer, about 3 or 4 pints. Add:

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup mixed spice (cinnamon sticks and whole cloves are also
excellent)

2 or 3 small sweet apples, cut up

1 1/4 cup pineapple juice

1 1/4 cup orange juice

the juice of 2 lemons

Place over a slow flame; then, before it begins to boil, take off the
heat and whip up some cream. Let this float on top of the brew like foam.

Put in a suitably large bowl (the more ornate the better)

Magickal associations

apples - love, health, peace
pineapple - healing, money, protection & love (in early America, this
fruit was the symbol of hospitality)
lemons - love, happiness & purification
cinnamon - love, psychic awareness & money
sugar - love



and this recipe for non-alcoholic Wassail is from Dorothy Morrison's book
Yule A Celebration of Light and Warmth.


8 cups apple juice or cider

2 cups cranberry juice

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp allspice

2 cinnamon sticks

1 orange

whole cloves



Turn the crockpot on high and pour in the apple and cranberry juices.
Stir in the sugar and allspace, then add cinnamon sticks. Stud the
orange with the cloves... about 25 or 30 cloves should do the trick..
and toss it in. Cover the pot and cook on high for 1 hour. Change the
setting to low and allow to simmer for 3 more hours, then serve


Magickal associations
apples - love, health, peace
orange - love, purification
cranberry - protection
cinnamon - love, psychic awareness & money
sugar - love