The pastor's wassail
1 servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
1 | cup | Sugar |
4 | Cinnamon Sticks | |
3 | Lemon Slices | |
2 | cups | Pineapple Juice |
2 | cups | Orange Juice |
6 | cups | Claret Wine |
½ | cup | Lemon Juice |
1 | cup | Dry Sherry |
Directions
Boil first three ingredients with ½ cup of water for 5 minutes.
Remove lemon slices, any seeds, and cinnamon sticks. Heat the remaining ingredients until very warm. Do not boil! Combine with the syrup and serve very warm. Note: When serving, one should say --- "Wass hael", an old Saxon phrase, meaning "to be whole" or "be well".
From: Civil War in the Kitchen Cookbook by Hugh and Judy Gowan Recipe By :