What is the drink wassail made of?
Traditional wassail was made with hard liquor, apples, brandy, and other spices. This recipe is made with cloves, apples, cinnamon, lemon, orange, ginger, and nutmeg and is a nonalcoholic wassail recipe. You could certainly add alcohol if you wish!
What’s a wassail bowl?
Wassail is a hot, mulled punch often associated with Yuletide, often drunk from a ‘wassail bowl’. The earliest versions were warmed mead into which roasted crab apples were dropped and burst to create a drink called ‘lambswool’ drunk on Lammas day, still known in Shakespeare’s time.
What is the wassail dispensed from a wassail bowl?
The ancient New Year practice of wassailing was practiced in Glamorgan, when parties would progress from house to house with traditional greetings for the health and prosperity of the inhabitants, which were acknowledged with spiced ale, dispensed in a wassail bowl carried round by the party.
What’s the difference between apple cider and wassail?
Whats the difference between mulled cider, spiced cider, and wassail? The short answer is NOTHING! Both mulled cider and wassail refer to a spiced juice drink. While wassail is traditionally a warm spiced apple drink, other mulled ciders contain cranberry or other flavors.
What happens at a wassail?
Wassailing is an annual tradition which involves blessing orchards to ensure a good harvest for the year to come. The celebrations involve music, song, dancing and a recognition of what orchards give to us.
Does wassail contain alcohol?
Wassail, (pronounced ‘wah-sul’) is an old English mulled hot drink with mixed fruit juices, spices and usually some alcohol. A ‘mulled’ drink is heated with spices and sometimes sugar. It’s served for autumn or winter. This recipe is a non-alcoholic Wassail recipe but certainly can be spiked with liquor if desired!
Who created wassail?
One legend about how Wassailing was created, says that a beautiful Saxon maiden named Rowena presented Prince Vortigen with a bowl of wine while toasting him with the words ‘waes hael’. Over the centuries, a great deal of ceremony developed around the custom of drinking wassail.