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How to Make Homemade Wassail - Christmas Hot Wine
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Apr 9, 2025
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Hey there fellow travelers and hot wine drinkers, Mark and Kathy with Walter's World and today we're
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going to be making wassail or hot wine that you can enjoy and this is one of my mom's favorite
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recipes. It most certainly is. So let's get started. Cheers. Cheers. Today we're helping
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Jocelyn and making one of our favorite Christmas drinks. Wassail. And this is something my mom has
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made for years and years and years. Every time I come home whether I was visiting you know for
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the holidays or when I was in college or whatever, this is something we'd have to get us in the
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festive season. Annual tradition. Yes, an annual tradition. So we thought we would share this with
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you and all of Jocelyn's fans. So what do we start with? Well, we're going to start with one
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quarter cup of water and we're going to heat that up with four slices of lemon and then we're going
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to put four sticks of cinnamon in it. We're going to cook that until the sugar dissolves
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Oops, gotta have the sugar. That's important. One cup of sugar. And that will dissolve eventually
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And the thing is, when you're having Walsall, sometimes you might go to other places around
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the world and you'll hear about hot wine, cautious Venus, glue vine. This is the mulled
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wine that people talk about. You can make it at home for your own holiday party or just
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enjoy when you're putting the Christmas tree up like we are. So while this is rendering down and dissolving, what you're going to do is you want to heat
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six cups of red wine Now we use burgundy that kind of our choice but you can do a Bordeaux Some people use Cabernet Claret Claret You have a lot of options
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so it could be your flavor, but you are having six cups of this
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So we're gonna gently pour this in so as not to have my mom kill me for making a mess
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Fun fact, I did almost burn the house down here when I was a child
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Yes, you did almost. Yes, but look how they painted the ceilings No one knows except for you, me, and mom
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So there's that. So while this is warm and this is dissolving. We're going to warm this up
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We're going to add two cups of orange juice. This is our..
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Well, we have two cups of orange juice and two cups of pineapple juice. I can't tell which one's which one right now, but just know you have two cups of each
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So while it's warming up... We'll heat all this together. What you will eventually do is pour the warm syrup, your sugar syrup, with your cinnamon sticks
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But we're going to strain it first. Okay. Otherwise, you end up getting the seeds and stuff, and it gets a bit much
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So this way, you could just sit back and drink and not worry about picking out a lemon seed or something
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I'll get a strain. There we go. We're going to make sure that the ingredients or the sugar is dissolved
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Then we're going to strain it and over the, oops, that's... Here
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Well, you know, in the best of worlds, things do happen. So we will survive
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See this is what you have when you have a tripod and another tripod There only so many hands I guess Dad could have been helpful Probably Yeah but he forgot to spoil it anyway So you know that she pressing it out to get the extra lemon out of there and get it through
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Do be careful when you're pouring. Obviously it can get a little frustrating there
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Maybe, you know, don't have the spoon in there when you're pouring
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That's a good suggestion. And probably if this was a little newer and more used
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I would have been attaching it. I am going to take out the cinnamon sticks and put them in the wine and juice mixture
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And then you can just steam this and enjoy it. Yeah, so let it cook for a while
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You don't want it to boil because the alcohol goes out of it, but you want it to cook so it kind of blends the flavors better
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and you'll notice if you're in Germany or France and they're having the hot wines
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they'll have it in sometimes those old school coffee containers where just to sit there percolating for a while
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you want to be percolating kind of going through just so you have it nice and hot and warm
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Some people actually do shots of liquor with it, like they'll pour a cup and then they'll have a shot in there
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We're not doing that today. We're just having a straight wassail, but it is pretty simple
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I would say let it cook for what, like five minutes? Yeah, I mean, it can simmer
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just as long as it's not boiling. And it can simmer. I mean, you can drink, have one drink now
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and you can let it go for a little while. And yeah, and actually when we have our Christmas open house
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we actually have a big pot of it going for hours and we just adding more as we go Cause you can keep adding in So you have the basic proportion so you can keep having it But there is one more thing we have to add to give it a little bit more of a kick because we not having any extra boost thing technically
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but dry Sherry one cup of dry Sherry. Very good. Let's add
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that in there. Because you want to add these extra things in
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here of this nice bowl of wine because otherwise it's just you're just drinking hot wine and most people don't like hot
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You want something special. Yeah, you want something special. That's why you have the dry sherry in there
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to add a little bit more of a punch, a little more of a flavor, and a little more of a Christmas smile for you
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So now all we need is a dipper. And a little time for it to get ready. Yeah
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And so we'll be right back. So we've got our ladle or dipper or Christmas cup infuser of hot weiner, if you prefer
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Now, notice we do have, we've traveled to Germany and Austria and all kinds of places for Christmas
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You get these great Christmas mugs You go have the hot wine when you're out at the Christmas markets, but let's get some here
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And you can see it's got a nice little steam going, so it's nice and ready to go
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We'll just... Finish one for you. Which color would you like? I'll go for the Chris Kittle market
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One you have in your hand right there. It's fine. Look at this. Now, you don't have to have the Christmas mugs to make it just right
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It's just something that we like to do because we've collected them over the years. So it's a little special thing we have
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So thanks, Mom. So from my mother and I to you, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's
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and enjoy your wassail. Cheers. Cheers. That's right, Mom. Cheers. Bye. Enjoy
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