Monday, December 16, 2013

Carol Sing & Wassil Bowl

My favorite holiday tradition has always been the Carol Sing the Monday before Christmas.  My parents invited everyone in town over to sing Christmas Carols, eat Christmas Cookies and have the Merry Christmas Punch aka Wassil bowl.  It was all pure joy!

The making of the Wassil bowl would start days before with the slow cooking of fruit and spices making the house quite fragrant.  My job was always the putting a clove in each section of the many slices of lemon and orange.   A few years ago it was time to make the Wassil and my mother opened her cookbook and pulled out a tattered, stained page with what was left of the recipe.  60 years in the making.  If you can make out the ingredients its worth the effort to make, however the mysterious ingredient , Sucaryl definitely dates the recipe and thankfully has a substitute!

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