Would you adopt me? Seriously that sounds so good on many different levels. I really miss living with a bunch of people and the smells of fall and winter hot drinks and soups filling the air and people talking and singing. Your family is so blessed have you as the Mom! You are so aware of the importance of family traditions and of the smells, tastes, and sounds that we associate with family and traditions and how to invoke wonderful memories and loving emotions. I am not sure exactly why it is so important that I write this next part, except that someone needs to know these things. As a nurse, I want everyone to know two very important facts about human senses. Smells invoke memories and emotions better than anything else. When a person is in a coma or dying, hearing is the last sense to go. So even if a loved one can not respond to you, they can still hear you, so go ahead and tell them good bye and how they are loved and will be missed. People need closure. People also need family memories to bind them together. If your family does not celebrate holidays, find happy repeatable things to do that involve good smells with loving feelings. If that’s too much trouble, then be prepared to be alone when you are old. I know many families who, partially for religious reasons, did not celebrate, not just holidays, but any traditions at all. They now are having a hard time understanding why their grown kids never call or visit them and the entire family acts like strangers to each other. People need spaced repetition in order to form memory patterns in their brains and thus emotional patterns of bonding. This is how human beings are wired. Patterns become habits with emotions attached and those turn into family bonds. I have outlived my close family and friends and it sucks!!! I love my cats and chickens, but they are not the same as having people who have shared memories to talk with. So build memories with your young family members now, and you will have someone to visit when you retire. 😊
What a great day to have a smell of Good Air with a Hum of Wassail on its tails!!! Here we Go a Wassailing among the Leaves so green, Love and Joy come To You, and to You a Wassail too, May God Bless you and Send you a Happy New Day or Year!!
Wassailing is very much alive here in the Apple county of Herefordshire. Pagan night of thanks giving for the apple harvest and giving back to the orchards. 🔥🍏 We always have it while we do bonfire night too, but that's just our family thing. We live among cider factories (cider not apple juice) and orchards, when the river Wye floods at the bottom of our garden, at this time of year it runs red and green with apples, wouldn't want to Bob for apples in it though, very fast flowing. Try the little empty teabags to put your favourite combination of spices in, they are great for anything like mulled wine, cider etc.
As soon as you started talking about wassail, my old mind went to the old Christmas carol, Here We Come A-Wassiling" (aka A Carolling) and I was humming the song through the whole video. It made me smile while I got ready to go to work.
I am so glad you’re sharing wasail with the world! It’s been a treasured holiday tradition for my family as long as I can remember. Our recipe is half apple and half cranberry. I’ve always loved the festive flavor of cranberrry in a sweet spiced drink. And speaking of! Caramel apple spice is still available at Starbucks and I get that any time I need to wind down not up. I loved apple cider so much as a child that my mom used to have to carry the dried mix around with her everywhere. The result of that though is that any time I am stressed or anxious, if I get some apple cider it immediately soothes me. That just speaks to your message of the power of strong happy memories and the utility of tying them to a scent or taste. So treasured, thank you for such a lovely video!
Ok, that sounds amazing. I've had wassail before, but the person that made it did it with mostly pineapple juice and I wasn't a fan. Apple and cranberry sounds amazing, though!
This sounds amazing and I can't wait to try and make it. Have you ever thought about maybe offering it as a seasonal holiday drink once you open your coffee shop? I think it would would be a nice seasonal addition and make the coffee shop smell like Christmas.
This is a great tradition! We used to have a version of this my mother made with freshly pressed cider from the roadside stand of a local farm with a cider mill. We'd buy gallons of the cider freshly pressed with NO preservatives. Sometimes the mill would be pressing the apples when we were there. We'd have it on certain nights before dinner and my father would have a fire going in the fireplace. We'd drink it while decorating the Christmas tree. The smells in the house between the freshly cut tree and the punch simmering on the stove in the kitchen were wonderful. I also remember having it during snowstorms (which were numerous in Central New England) while sitting around a coffee table in the living room having steak or Swiss (cheese) fondue in front of the fire. We also had it on Thanksgiving and Christmas - of course. To save on cinnamon sticks you can also just skip them and use powdered cinnamon instead - although it is more fun to see the cinnamon sticks floating around. Another spice I use in most of my"fall/winter/ holiday recipes is Allspice. I don't think the drink by itself it needs any sweetening . Fruit juice by itself is sweet enough. These days I make my own juices with a slow juicer. I think the best juice you can have is to make your own freshly made with a slow auger style juicer which you can often find for very little on Craig's list. It also tastes great with some dark rum added to the mugs of those who want it. Or you can add the rum to the punch and the alcohol will burn off in minutes leaving a nice depth of flavor in the punch.
Wassail! We would drive from Arkansas to Tennessee every Thanksgiving growing up and my aunt would have her crock pot on the back porch all weekend long. I moved to Vancouver, WA 9 years ago and have been spreading the good word of wassail! As my 5 year old will say, you fill my bucket! Thank you Jess!
My mother in law makes wassail every year for her Christmas Eve party. She is a church pianist and is often at church when everyone arrives, but my father in law is always standing there at the stove dutifully stirring the wassail in her giant stock pot. ❤️
My grandmother used to make wassail with her own homemade apple cider that she canned. As soon as you walked into her house after apple harvesting you knew what she was doing. Her closets were against the outside walls of her home so she used those as her "canning" cellars. Her house was always so full of the seasonal smells every time you walked in. I loved to spend the night at her house. I used to ride my bike to her house and visit till it was nearly dark. I would call my mother and ask to spend the night. Her applesauce on top of her pancakes was the best breakfast.
I make an herbal wassail, simmering cider with rose hips, hawthorn berries, a few elderberries, cranberries, orange peel, calendula, spruce tips/pine needles, and all those typical "apple spices" like cinnamon, ginger, clove, allspice, etc. Sometimes adding a splash of bourbon to individual cups of wassail. 😁
I order wassail. Wassailing is still very much a tradition here in the UK, particularly in the (hard) cider producing regions that includes dressing up, music and singing... and of course, lots of drinking.
Thank you, Jess! (That’s my momma’s name 😃 ) Love, Savannah + Matthew ✝️ We love your family, channel, dedications, efforts, truths, charity, friendship, and spirit! God bless ya’ll!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you simmer this down to a syrup and store in the fridge (can mine in pints) you can add to hot tea when cold and cold tea when hot. Up here in the maritime Pac NW this time of year is unfiltered apple juice season (which we get by the case). Once the warehouse is out (the apples have just finished harvesting), it's gone. I simmer with oranges, lemons, and pears.
Toast, "Wassail"! Response, " Drink Ale!" Yes, I just finished watching all the BBC history shows with Ruth, Alex and Peter starting in Tudor England up until the Wartime Farm series. Highly recommend. Thank you for the recipe Jess, sounds like a plan for this rainy weekend.
This has been a family tradition that I thoroughly enjoyed as a child at my Grandma's house during the holidays. I've made it for all my family + friend gatherings over the years. I feel compelled to spread the cheer. I love the history behind it too, thanks for sharing!
This is the second time in my life celebrating the winter holidays. Still figuring out how to do all the festive things. I'll add wassail this year. I hope the smell is as magical as it sounds!
I wasail my trees very quietly (😆cause I'm not exactly a singer and already the crazy, witchy lady popping out of the woods with branches in her hair ) while fertilizing and mulching. I add a small touch of maple syrup and maybe a wee nip of whiskey or bourbon since it's out for tinctures and tonics and such. 😉 🌿💚🌿
I used to do a crockpot of something similar to this when I was working and people would come from all over the building wanting to have a cup of spiced cider!
We heat with wood & I like to use water with clove, cinnamon and citrus peels in an old pan on it to add moisture & wonderful soothing scent into the air❤
I invented our very own cranberry cider. It has cinnamon sticks in it and sweeten it with maple syrup or honey. And the only time of year we have it is anytime after October until my fresh cranberries from the years harvest ( we buy around 5-6 pounds from the local growers) are gone. Fall season here involves a lot of Apple dishes and cranberry dishes. And pumpkin and squash things.
I'm really enjoying these last couple of early morning vlog releases. I live in Washington state and this is a perfect wake up video! We make a similar drink for the holidays but this is inspiring me to make it more often for the family to share the tradition and ambiance
LOVE WASSAIL!!!! This was a carryover from my childhood for us. It was a tradition from my grandmother's side of the family, the Helmig side. She said the tradition was to have a pot on the stove for the carolers to thank them for their song and warm them up.
if you do a long simmer with citrus, remove the peels or pull them out after only a few hours. otherwise, the peels can make it extremely bitter. i also like to add cranberries to mine because they are pretty.
Your my most favorite person on you tube. Once upon a time I was sharing your awesome salsa recipe and referred to you as a friend. Lol...kinda funny but you do inspire me so much. Thank for sharing!
My favorite ‘recipe’ for wassail is apple cider, cranberry juice, white grape juice, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves and whole allspice. Our family’s absolute favorite!
So cool 😎 thanks for sharing Jess. I didn't try it this weekend and now I know what I missed 🤣 but I couldn't pass up home fresh raw hot chocolate...it was amazing 🥰
Yay! I was gifted a recipe called Red Hot Cider and realized that it was basically Wassail! It IS a tradition for us to bring it in a crock pot to "friends' giving" and any gathering we are hosting in December. Even NYE for folks who like cinnamon (and some even spike it with liquor for a "more is more" festive glass).
I used to sing in madrigals in HS which will always be cherished memories. Being Missourians we pronounced it Wah-sail (like sailing on a boat) now I will be tracking down the madrigal song
It made me think of the wassailing song. 😂 Which does me good health and I think it's neat how it transferred over to a door to door thing. Yup a great tradition
"Rustic & Functional is fine with me" 💕LOVE IT❣️ I also love how you share; how to make a dish without specific measurements. It works for me and I totally get it. My Grandfather was a Chief. I remember growing up and watching him cook , he never measured anything. I asked him how everything he made tasted so good all the time and he said; it was always by taste. Lucky Grandpa had VERY GOOD TASTE! 😊 Thanks for sharing your "recipe" it's totally my way of learning and cooking!
Our town (New Braunfels,Tx) has a Wassailfest in the downtown area where all the shop owners make their own version and it's voted on by those attending. Enjoy!!
I used to teach a Christmas Around the World unit to 4th and 5th graders. We always ended it with a party where we had traditional dishes form each of the countries or regions we'd studied. Wassail was always on the menu. The wassail and risgrot (a Scandinavian rice pudding) were always very popular. I do still make wassail often around this time of year.
Everyone must watch ‘ .Claymation Christmas”…so entertaining and for the whole family..get you all in the spirit of Christmas and you can sing the wassail song..lol
My aunt always made wassail at Thanksgiving, and all of us kids knew Christmas was right around the corner. Thank you for sharing this, it brought back so many beautiful memories.
Thank you Jess I have saved all your recipes on your blog and they are definitely amazing thank you for sharing and God bless you and your family Amen 🙏
Love this!! Makes me think of the beginning of Little Women (90s version) where the March girls are singing, “Here we come a’wassailing upon the leaves so green…”
I love wassail and spiced tea! It smells like the Christmas season, of course we it’s 84 degrees outside today, so I’ll wait until it cools off a bit. Thank you Jess for sharing.❤
As a pagan and a person with a history degree. I love Wassail. In a pre and post Christian England it was tradition to go from house to house wassailing, You go to a house sing songs, and if the home owner joins in you get "drink" from them and then you go singing to the next house. Some believe this is where the tradition of Christmas Carols come from. Eventually you would wind up at the "Lord" or Kings house and then drink and party with them. Thought my favorite was the Wassail song. "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 you your wassail, too, And God bless you, and send you A Happy New Year, And God send you a Happy New Year. We are not daily beggers That beg from door to door, But we are neighbors' children Whom you have seen before Love and joy come to you, And to you your wassail, too, And God bless you, and send you A Happy New Year, And God send you a Happy New Year. Good master and good mistress, As you sit beside the fire, Pray think of us poor children Who wander in the mire. Love and joy come to you, And to you your wassail, too, And God bless you, and send you A Happy New Year, And God send you a Happy New Year" There are more lines too, but the best is the California raisins did a rendition. ruclips.net/video/0xENMDMFjnA/видео.html
When my boys were little I used an old fashion coffee pot. Filled it with apple juice and put red hot candies in the basket and let it perk till red hots melted.. yummy
Jess, I have Wassailed the trees and sung the "Here we go a wassailing".... song many times. :-) When I make mulled cider I put in star anise, and coriander, sometimes allspice, a few peppercorns, in addition to the cinnamon and cloves. When I had a wood burning cook stove I often simmered the leftover mulled cider or simply a cinnamon stick and star anise, and water , maybe Apple peels, to improve the air in a closed up house in winter. Good memories! :-) Thanks, from western Massachusetts USA
Would you adopt me?
Seriously that sounds so good on many different levels. I really miss living with a bunch of people and the smells of fall and winter hot drinks and soups filling the air and people talking and singing. Your family is so blessed have you as the Mom! You are so aware of the importance of family traditions and of the smells, tastes, and sounds that we associate with family and traditions and how to invoke wonderful memories and loving emotions.
I am not sure exactly why it is so important that I write this next part, except that someone needs to know these things.
As a nurse, I want everyone to know two very important facts about human senses. Smells invoke memories and emotions better than anything else. When a person is in a coma or dying, hearing is the last sense to go. So even if a loved one can not respond to you, they can still hear you, so go ahead and tell them good bye and how they are loved and will be missed. People need closure.
People also need family memories to bind them together. If your family does not celebrate holidays, find happy repeatable things to do that involve good smells with loving feelings. If that’s too much trouble, then be prepared to be alone when you are old. I know many families who, partially for religious reasons, did not celebrate, not just holidays, but any traditions at all. They now are having a hard time understanding why their grown kids never call or visit them and the entire family acts like strangers to each other.
People need spaced repetition in order to form memory patterns in their brains and thus emotional patterns of bonding. This is how human beings are wired. Patterns become habits with emotions attached and those turn into family bonds.
I have outlived my close family and friends and it sucks!!! I love my cats and chickens, but they are not the same as having people who have shared memories to talk with. So build memories with your young family members now, and you will have someone to visit when you retire. 😊
Thanks for your words. So true. :-)
Wassail is the blessing and singing of the health of fruit/apple trees still common in the south of England
What a great day to have a smell of Good Air with a Hum of Wassail on its tails!!! Here we Go a Wassailing among the Leaves so green, Love and Joy come To You, and to You a Wassail too, May God Bless you and Send you a Happy New Day or Year!!
My old church would have a wassel and Christmas carol sing-a-long night during the holidays. Such good childhood memories from those nights.
“Rustic and functional is fine by me”. I need this tshirt!!!!”
"Here we come a wasseling among the trees of green" is a verse in a Christmas song I remember hearing growing up 😆
Wassailing is very much alive here in the Apple county of Herefordshire.
Pagan night of thanks giving for the apple harvest and giving back to the orchards. 🔥🍏
We always have it while we do bonfire night too, but that's just our family thing. We live among cider factories (cider not apple juice) and orchards, when the river Wye floods at the bottom of our garden, at this time of year it runs red and green with apples, wouldn't want to Bob for apples in it though, very fast flowing.
Try the little empty teabags to put your favourite combination of spices in, they are great for anything like mulled wine, cider etc.
Wassailing isn't pagan.
As soon as you started talking about wassail, my old mind went to the old Christmas carol, Here We Come A-Wassiling" (aka A Carolling) and I was humming the song through the whole video. It made me smile while I got ready to go to work.
I am so glad you’re sharing wasail with the world! It’s been a treasured holiday tradition for my family as long as I can remember. Our recipe is half apple and half cranberry. I’ve always loved the festive flavor of cranberrry in a sweet spiced drink. And speaking of! Caramel apple spice is still available at Starbucks and I get that any time I need to wind down not up. I loved apple cider so much as a child that my mom used to have to carry the dried mix around with her everywhere. The result of that though is that any time I am stressed or anxious, if I get some apple cider it immediately soothes me. That just speaks to your message of the power of strong happy memories and the utility of tying them to a scent or taste. So treasured, thank you for such a lovely video!
I was wondering about cranberries. Thanks for that! I wonder if Hibiscus would be good in it, too?
Not to change the subject… but where did you get your knife block set ? It looks awesome !!
Ok, that sounds amazing. I've had wassail before, but the person that made it did it with mostly pineapple juice and I wasn't a fan. Apple and cranberry sounds amazing, though!
This sounds amazing and I can't wait to try and make it. Have you ever thought about maybe offering it as a seasonal holiday drink once you open your coffee shop? I think it would would be a nice seasonal addition and make the coffee shop smell like Christmas.
This is a great tradition! We used to have a version of this my mother made with freshly pressed cider from the roadside stand of a local farm with a cider mill. We'd buy gallons of the cider freshly pressed with NO preservatives. Sometimes the mill would be pressing the apples when we were there. We'd have it on certain nights before dinner and my father would have a fire going in the fireplace. We'd drink it while decorating the Christmas tree. The smells in the house between the freshly cut tree and the punch simmering on the stove in the kitchen were wonderful. I also remember having it during snowstorms (which were numerous in Central New England) while sitting around a coffee table in the living room having steak or Swiss (cheese) fondue in front of the fire. We also had it on Thanksgiving and Christmas - of course.
To save on cinnamon sticks you can also just skip them and use powdered cinnamon instead - although it is more fun to see the cinnamon sticks floating around. Another spice I use in most of my"fall/winter/ holiday recipes is Allspice. I don't think the drink by itself it needs any sweetening . Fruit juice by itself is sweet enough. These days I make my own juices with a slow juicer. I think the best juice you can have is to make your own freshly made with a slow auger style juicer which you can often find for very little on Craig's list. It also tastes great with some dark rum added to the mugs of those who want it. Or you can add the rum to the punch and the alcohol will burn off in minutes leaving a nice depth of flavor in the punch.
My favorite thing about this video is your sweater… lol. I just love when sweater season starts💗😊
Wassail! We would drive from Arkansas to Tennessee every Thanksgiving growing up and my aunt would have her crock pot on the back porch all weekend long. I moved to Vancouver, WA 9 years ago and have been spreading the good word of wassail! As my 5 year old will say, you fill my bucket! Thank you Jess!
My mother in law makes wassail every year for her Christmas Eve party. She is a church pianist and is often at church when everyone arrives, but my father in law is always standing there at the stove dutifully stirring the wassail in her giant stock pot. ❤️
The tip to help sooth a child's heart, the history lesson and the recipe. I'm here for AALLLL the content♥️♥️♥️
I'm thinking of cranberries. The color, smell and taste would be wonderful
My grandmother used to make wassail with her own homemade apple cider that she canned. As soon as you walked into her house after apple harvesting you knew what she was doing. Her closets were against the outside walls of her home so she used those as her "canning" cellars. Her house was always so full of the seasonal smells every time you walked in. I loved to spend the night at her house. I used to ride my bike to her house and visit till it was nearly dark. I would call my mother and ask to spend the night. Her applesauce on top of her pancakes was the best breakfast.
I make an herbal wassail, simmering cider with rose hips, hawthorn berries, a few elderberries, cranberries, orange peel, calendula, spruce tips/pine needles, and all those typical "apple spices" like cinnamon, ginger, clove, allspice, etc. Sometimes adding a splash of bourbon to individual cups of wassail. 😁
I order wassail. Wassailing is still very much a tradition here in the UK, particularly in the (hard) cider producing regions that includes dressing up, music and singing... and of course, lots of drinking.
Watching you put cloves in the fruit reminds me of making pomander balls during the holidays.
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I put whole allspice berries and star anise in mine in addition to the cinnamon and cloves. I like it a little spicy! YUM!
I would love more videos about creating atmosphere and traditions in the home!
That song now in my head…”wassail, wassail all over the town…” 💓
Picturing this simmering a cast iron pot on top of a wood stove and the heavenly smell it would make in the house. Going to have to give it a go.
The idea of going out and singing Good Health to the trees is a beautiful idea.
Thank you, Jess! (That’s my momma’s name 😃 )
Love, Savannah + Matthew ✝️
We love your family, channel, dedications, efforts, truths, charity, friendship, and spirit! God bless ya’ll!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you simmer this down to a syrup and store in the fridge (can mine in pints) you can add to hot tea when cold and cold tea when hot. Up here in the maritime Pac NW this time of year is unfiltered apple juice season (which we get by the case). Once the warehouse is out (the apples have just finished harvesting), it's gone.
I simmer with oranges, lemons, and pears.
Toast, "Wassail"!
Response, " Drink Ale!"
Yes, I just finished watching all the BBC history shows with Ruth, Alex and Peter starting in Tudor England up until the Wartime Farm series. Highly recommend. Thank you for the recipe Jess, sounds like a plan for this rainy weekend.
This has been a family tradition that I thoroughly enjoyed as a child at my Grandma's house during the holidays. I've made it for all my family + friend gatherings over the years. I feel compelled to spread the cheer. I love the history behind it too, thanks for sharing!
“I am not that person” Jess I flippin love you, girl 😂
This came close to smellavision! I was thinking as you were preparing it, how good that would smell simmering on my wood stove. Off to the store!
This is the second time in my life celebrating the winter holidays. Still figuring out how to do all the festive things. I'll add wassail this year. I hope the smell is as magical as it sounds!
I wasail my trees very quietly (😆cause I'm not exactly a singer and already the crazy, witchy lady popping out of the woods with branches in her hair ) while fertilizing and mulching. I add a small touch of maple syrup and maybe a wee nip of whiskey or bourbon since it's out for tinctures and tonics and such. 😉 🌿💚🌿
Yum!! Love wassail....I make ours with cranberries and oranges.
Its officially the Holiday season. 😊
I used to do a crockpot of something similar to this when I was working and people would come from all over the building wanting to have a cup of spiced cider!
I do feel empowered and not at all frustrated!
Wasn't there a Christmas Carol saying, "Here we go a 'waisling"? I absolutely love wassail!
my mom made wassail from thanksgiving to Christmas every year when I was growing up. When I smell the flavors of wassail I think of my mom.
Jess you’ve been looking so much more healthy in your last few videos!!
Good morning ❤️
Good morning sunshine.
Here We Come A-wassailing Christmas carol makes so much more sense now!
We heat with wood & I like to use water with clove, cinnamon and citrus peels in an old pan on it to add moisture & wonderful soothing scent into the air❤
Wassail is great. Thank you, Pagan Anglo-Dane ancestors. I also love a Yule Log and a sprig of. They truly had the best holiday traditions.
It comes from the Anglo-Saxon term Waes Hael, meaning good health. What a lovely sentiment.
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But wassailing the trees is mediaeval and the Yule log is 12th century German.
Love you talking about anchoring traditions. Please keep sharing.
I wassail our trees in Yule, not just the cider ones. I love that the wassailing has been taken up and changed to what people love around the world xx
I invented our very own cranberry cider. It has cinnamon sticks in it and sweeten it with maple syrup or honey. And the only time of year we have it is anytime after October until my fresh cranberries from the years harvest ( we buy around 5-6 pounds from the local growers) are gone. Fall season here involves a lot of Apple dishes and cranberry dishes. And pumpkin and squash things.
I went to private school and we always sang a song about Wassail "here we go a wassialing" so we also made wassail every year! I loved it!
I'm really enjoying these last couple of early morning vlog releases. I live in Washington state and this is a perfect wake up video! We make a similar drink for the holidays but this is inspiring me to make it more often for the family to share the tradition and ambiance
LOVE WASSAIL!!!! This was a carryover from my childhood for us. It was a tradition from my grandmother's side of the family, the Helmig side. She said the tradition was to have a pot on the stove for the carolers to thank them for their song and warm them up.
probably what the wassailing turned into for her area.
Almost seems like a festive sangria. I love the history behind it!
I'm pretty sure my husband used to drink this stuff as a child. Thanks for the wassil task. I love it 💕💕💕
Wow! I haven't had that in over 40 years! Memories triggered! 🙂
Thanks for helping me "set the mood" for the holidays.
My grandmother always made wassail for me when I was sick, always made me feel better, especially when I had a sore throat
if you do a long simmer with citrus, remove the peels or pull them out after only a few hours. otherwise, the peels can make it extremely bitter. i also like to add cranberries to mine because they are pretty.
Wassail is one of my favorite traditions!!! ❤
Beowulf is my favorite ever and I'm so glad someone finally explained wasail!!
man I bet biting into that fruit after your drink your wassil is just delightful
Your my most favorite person on you tube. Once upon a time I was sharing your awesome salsa recipe and referred to you as a friend. Lol...kinda funny but you do inspire me so much. Thank for sharing!
My mom has been making wassail for as long as I can remember ❤️
My favorite ‘recipe’ for wassail is apple cider, cranberry juice, white grape juice, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves and whole allspice. Our family’s absolute favorite!
Yes. I haven’t had this in forever. Thank you
There is an old Christmas song, "Here we come A-wassailing." Thanks for your recipie, sounds 😋 delicious.
So cool 😎 thanks for sharing Jess. I didn't try it this weekend and now I know what I missed 🤣 but I couldn't pass up home fresh raw hot chocolate...it was amazing 🥰
I loved learning the history of wassail. We make spiced cider in the crockpot every fall. Love it!!!
Love seeing the can of Slap Ya Mama in the background. That is my go-to seasoning!
I bet a little chopped ginger would be really good in there❤
Yummy and I love the reasoning. There's a lot of security in traditions.
We make Glögg here and I agree, the smell is just tied to so many beautiful holiday memories...
I make a cranberry wassail that we all love!
oh yeah, I can smell it now! ❤️
Yay! I was gifted a recipe called Red Hot Cider and realized that it was basically Wassail! It IS a tradition for us to bring it in a crock pot to "friends' giving" and any gathering we are hosting in December. Even NYE for folks who like cinnamon (and some even spike it with liquor for a "more is more" festive glass).
Great video...the basics and then we are free to be the wassail person we were meant to be. :)
Yes it's good! Thanks Jess 🤗❤️
I used to sing in madrigals in HS which will always be cherished memories. Being Missourians we pronounced it Wah-sail (like sailing on a boat) now I will be tracking down the madrigal song
No sense brings back memories like the sense of smell and taste ❤oh ! Jess add fresh cranberries ! Game changer !, 😊
It made me think of the wassailing song. 😂 Which does me good health and I think it's neat how it transferred over to a door to door thing. Yup a great tradition
"Rustic & Functional is fine with me" 💕LOVE IT❣️ I also love how you share; how to make a dish without specific measurements. It works for me and I totally get it. My Grandfather was a Chief. I remember growing up and watching him cook , he never measured anything. I asked him how everything he made tasted so good all the time and he said; it was always by taste. Lucky Grandpa had VERY GOOD TASTE! 😊 Thanks for sharing your "recipe" it's totally my way of learning and cooking!
NICE! Thank you, Jess!!
Sounds wonderful! I think it's time to add this to our yearly Christmas celebration! thanks Jess xoxox
I'm wanting too as well! Do you know if u have to have cloves
Oh yes, we will go a wassailing!! 😊❤️
Our town (New Braunfels,Tx) has a Wassailfest in the downtown area where all the shop owners make their own version and it's voted on by those attending. Enjoy!!
Wonderful! This week I am juicing apples from our tree for the express purpose of making wassail for the holidays. Salut!
I used to teach a Christmas Around the World unit to 4th and 5th graders. We always ended it with a party where we had traditional dishes form each of the countries or regions we'd studied. Wassail was always on the menu. The wassail and risgrot (a Scandinavian rice pudding) were always very popular.
I do still make wassail often around this time of year.
Everyone must watch ‘ .Claymation Christmas”…so entertaining and for the whole family..get you all in the spirit of Christmas and you can sing the wassail song..lol
Good morning 😃
This is great! Brings back sweet memories.
My aunt always made wassail at Thanksgiving, and all of us kids knew Christmas was right around the corner. Thank you for sharing this, it brought back so many beautiful memories.
Thank you Jess I have saved all your recipes on your blog and they are definitely amazing thank you for sharing and God bless you and your family Amen 🙏
Love this!! Makes me think of the beginning of Little Women (90s version) where the March girls are singing, “Here we come a’wassailing upon the leaves so green…”
I love wassail and spiced tea! It smells like the Christmas season, of course we it’s 84 degrees outside today, so I’ll wait until it cools off a bit. Thank you Jess for sharing.❤
As a pagan and a person with a history degree. I love Wassail. In a pre and post Christian England it was tradition to go from house to house wassailing, You go to a house sing songs, and if the home owner joins in you get "drink" from them and then you go singing to the next house. Some believe this is where the tradition of Christmas Carols come from. Eventually you would wind up at the "Lord" or Kings house and then drink and party with them. Thought my favorite was the Wassail song.
"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 you your wassail, too,
And God bless you, and send you
A Happy New Year,
And God send you a Happy New Year.
We are not daily beggers
That beg from door to door,
But we are neighbors' children
Whom you have seen before
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail, too,
And God bless you, and send you
A Happy New Year,
And God send you a Happy New Year.
Good master and good mistress,
As you sit beside the fire,
Pray think of us poor children
Who wander in the mire.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail, too,
And God bless you, and send you
A Happy New Year,
And God send you a Happy New Year"
There are more lines too, but the best is the California raisins did a rendition. ruclips.net/video/0xENMDMFjnA/видео.html
Wassailing is not pre-Christian in origin.
When my boys were little I used an old fashion coffee pot. Filled it with apple juice and put red hot candies in the basket and let it perk till red hots melted.. yummy
HELLO from 🇨🇦 near Sudbury Ontario ☺️ Thank you for Sharing this 👍🏻💗 God's Continual Blessings to you and yours 🙏😇🕊️💝
Have great day
Love watching your carefree attitude. So refreshing. Looks yummy.
Jess, I have Wassailed the trees and sung the "Here we go a wassailing".... song many times. :-)
When I make mulled cider I put in star anise, and coriander, sometimes allspice, a few peppercorns, in addition to the cinnamon and cloves. When I had a wood burning cook stove I often simmered the leftover mulled cider or simply a cinnamon stick and star anise, and water , maybe Apple peels, to improve the air in a closed up house in winter. Good memories! :-) Thanks, from western Massachusetts USA
Thank you, Jess. Always looking for food ideas. Hot spiced cider is a good one. Haven't had it for ages. I may have to whip some up. God bless.