Another Astonishing Old Drink Recipe

[Palinka (RIP)]

Wassail Punch


Ingredients

6 small apples (washed and cored0
1 litre (hard) dry cider (unsparkling)
500mls calvados (or brandy or rum)
2 cinnamon sticks
2 pinches of ground cloves
1 lemon (sliced)
Ground Nutmeg - half a pinch
Sugar - to taste

Recipe

Preheat oven to 190c/Gas Mark 5.
Score the apples and place in a preheated oven dish. Roast the apples for 45-50 minutes or until the apples' skins are soft and beginning to split.
In a large saucepan, add the calvados, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg to the cider and place over a low heat, while stirring well.
Keep stirring until the liquid is thoroughly heated through and the liquid begins to foam.
Add the lemon slices and the roasted apples and give the liquid a good stir (if there is any juice left in the dish, from roasting the apples, add that too).
If you want to add sugar, add it now (I have found that darker sugars work best) - add the sugar gradually. Stirring and tasting as you go*.
Serve hot, in ceramic mugs, and enjoy.

The residual apples can be used either as a dessert (with cream) or placed into brandy, to infuse**, for future use.


N.B.
*Alternately, you can allow the liquid to cool, run it through the blender and then reheat it. However, this will produce a thicker, soup-like, fluid.

** Or Vodka, for later drinking.

[oettinger]

A reciepe of your`s containing cider?
Non sparkling has to be the trick, or are we really that close to armageddon?
The calvados/rum-apple combo sounds really intriguing

[Palinka (RIP)]

...The calvados/rum-apple combo sounds really intriguing

Then try it.

[mistah willies]

...The calvados/rum-apple combo sounds really intriguing

Then try it.

Sound advice.

The Dark One is one of them old souls,

you know, the kind that has been around since the whole place was created from a big bang, from the glowing finger of an enlightened being we refer to as FKR.

He be what folks have termed an "old soul" and he is one that saunters, stealth and deadly, in spite of his leathery wings, and he bides his time before the sudden and merciful dispatch.

Merciful, for one suffers less in its quickness.

Temper is not temperance, but patience is reserved for the wounded: them patients.


Me?

I'm a new soul. I have not been on this temporal plane for all that long. This is my first time in the mortal coil, and I intend to discover the flavor form each mysterious bottle on the back of the barrrr.

Time is wasting with this writing stuff.


Quick!


DRINK!



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[Palinka (RIP)]

...He be what folks have termed an "old soul"...

I have it on the good authority of more than a few Ex's, that I have no soul.

[oettinger]

...He be what folks have termed an "old soul"...

I have it on the good authority of more than a few Ex's, that I have no soul.

Losing your mind is one thing but considering me an "Ex" is stressing things out a bit don`t you think?

Btt, you think pear might work also in this one?

[Mr. Viking]

awful lot of apple based produce here, you feeling okay?

also, dry, flat cider is hard to get, seems to be almost exclusively medium or medium-dry. I have been trying to get to the bottom of this labelling conundrum for a while because I'm not sure if it refers to actual sugar content or to apparent sweetness. As we all ought to know, some fruit based drinks undergo a bacterial process called malo-lactic fermentation which creates sweetness or smoothness in the drink without sugar. I'm not sure if ciders marked as medium take it into account or if they simply aren't fully fermented. Sorry for mild digression

[AntonArkydivich]

Could you just bust open a bottle of carbonated cider and let it go flat? Seems like that'll do.