Potion time
Spell of Banishment of Winter Feelbads
It smells so good in here
There's a certain poetry to finishing this right as it's getting dark and blue outside.
(This came out so fucking good I will definitely be making this again.)
Certainly!
I was loosely following a wassail recipe I found but made some substitutions, and this might be closer to a mulled cider than a true wassail, but either way it's delicious.
Ingredients:
-64 floz (~2 litres) of apple cider
-5 mid sized oranges
-1 regular or 2 small lemons
-1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
-3 or 4 cinnamon sticks (I used three since one was chonky)
-fresh ginger root (or 1/4 tsp ground ginger)
-15 whole cloves or 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
-1 Tablespoon of honey
Optional: your choice of rum or brandy
Preparations:
Juice four of the five oranges and your lemon(s). Slice the fifth orange and poke the whole cloves into the slices.
Thinly slice the ginger root. I ended up only using one of the two pictured, and each of those were about 4 inches long or so.
Add all of the ingredients to your cooking vessel and bring to a medium heat. You want to see a bit of bubbling in the liquid (not a rolling boil) and a froth/foam will form on top. This is fine!
Reduce to a low simmer (around a 3 out of 10) for 30-40 minutes. Stir everything in the pot in about five minute intervals.
Storage:
If you aren't going to drink it all immediately, you can pour it back into the original cider container or any air tight container and keep it in the fridge.
Yearly reblog of my wassail recipe with the addendum that you DO NOT need fresh ingredients for this.
I've opted to use a 1/4 teaspoon of all four spices, and got a single serve thing of Simply Orange orange juice and grocery store lemon juice instead of freshly juiced citruses the last couple times I've made this. If you want to just buy a bunch of things, toss them into a pot together, and simmer them you absolutely can do that.






















