Spiced Wine Wassail Packet

Wine Spices Wassail Kit is an Old English Recipe with Spice Bags included. Quantity: 1.5oz Spices - Brews 1 Gallon Contents: Muslin Spice Bag with Drawstring, Orange Peel, Ginger, Cinnamon, Allspice, Cloves For a Gallon Brew: Fill a pot with 1 gallon of red wine or port.  Fill spice bag with ⅓ cup of wassail spices.  Add spices and ½ cup sugar, and simmer at low heat for 1-2 hours.  Serve hot or chilled.  History: Wassail (Middle English 'wæs hæl' - 'be you healthy') refers both to the salute 'Waes Hail' and to the drink of wassail, a hot mulled wine, or as mulled cider drunk as part of wassailing, an English ritual intended to ensure a good apple harvest the following year. Wassail began as a spiced wine that resembled Roman recipes that survived the Middle Ages.  Recipes began to vary with English production of ale, mead, and cider. Hand Blended + Packaged in Charleston, South Carolina Oliver Pluff & Company is a fine purveyor of teas, toddies, wassails, coffee and cacao. We star