Title: Wassail (Martha Stewart)
Categories: Holiday Beverages Alcohol
Yield: 12 Servings

MARTHA STEWART'S 1996 HOLIDA
12		Lady apples
2	tb	Brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2	ts	Cinnamon
1	tb	Water
72	oz	Dark beer
2	c	Sweet sherry
1 1/2	c	Granulated sugar
MULLING SPICES
3		Whole allspice berries
2		One-inch pieces of cinnamon
		Stick
2		Whole cloves
1		Whole cardamom pods
1		Dried or candied ginger
		Pieces
1		One-inch pieces of dried
		Orange peel
1		Star anise
1/2		Bay leaves
		Cheesecloth
		Kitchen twine

Toast the health and good fortune of family and friends with this holiday drink, the origins of which date all the way back to thirteenth-century England.

1. Heat oven to 350F. Place whole lady apples, stems up, in a small roasting pan. In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar and the cinnamon. Sprinkle mixture over apples. Add water, cover with foil, and bake for 35 minutes. Remove from oven, remove foil, and set the apples aside.

2. While the apples bake, combine the beer, sherry, granulated sugar, and one sachet of Mulling Spices in a heavy-bottomed pot. Over medium heat, warm the Wassail for 10-15 minutes, until it is very hot, but not boiling; make sure the sugar is totally dissolved. Place a lady apple in each cup, fill the cup with Wassail, and serve immediately.

Mulling Spices: These pungent spice sachets impart rich flavor to Wassail and apple cider. A decoratively stamped muslin pouch of sachets makes a fragrant stocking stuffer.

Fold cheesecloth into a double layer, and cut a 6-by-6" square. Put spices in square. Gather cheesecloth around spices to create a pouch. Tie pouch up in a knot, then add a bow made with kitchen twine.

Captured from www.cbs.com on day of broadcast, 12/10/96. Control characters desperately edited out by Sylvia Steiger.

Nutritional information per serving: xx calories, xx gm protein, xxx mg cholesterol, xx gm carbohydrate, xxx mg sodium, x gm fiber, xx gm fat (x gm sat, x gm mono, x gm poly), x mg iron, xx mg calcium, xx% of calories from fat.

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