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Winter Drinks

Which is your favorite drink?


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    32

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
What is your favorite cold weather/holiday drink?

Hot Cocoa
Wassail
Egg Nog
Hot Buttered Rum
Apple Cider
Tea

Something else?
 

Ori

Angel slayer
Hot choclate, although if I have too much I start sweating.
Tea is good too, it doesn't have to be anything fancy, as long as it's strong and sweet.
 

Aqualung

Tasty
Apple Cider. I could drink barrels of that. My favourite drink, although my family isn't in the habit of drinking it, so I have to scrounge around for it.
 

Dark_Waltz

Active Member
Cocoa and coffee my fave, whittards do a nice chocolate and cinnamon flavour coffee but its really only nice in small doses for me
 

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
"Other" Anything alcoholic until now...........my first 'dry' Christmas; I am dreading it....................:(
 
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Green Gaia

Veteran Member
I'd have to pick my Mom's Wassail, but I love hot cocoa, tea and apple cider too. My Dad will make a batch of Hot Buttered Rum on Christmas Eve, and it's good, but I couldn't drink it all the time. The only egg nog I've ever liked is Silk's Soy Nog, I love it, but I can't drink the real thing.
 

Pah

Uber all member
My favorite, from my skiing days, was Austrian Stroh's Rum (160 proof) and hot chocolate.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
The hot chocalate wear I work is the best I've ever had, but I would still prefer a cup of cappacino. Mainly English Toffee, Mocha, White chocalate & caramel, and other odd flavored ones, such as a Butterfinger flavored one, or a Strawberry Shortcake.
 

glasgowchick

Gives Glory to God !!!
michel said:
"Other" Anything alcoholic until now...........my first 'dry' Christmas; I am dreading it....................:(


Well done Michel, :clap Try not look at is as something to be dreaded, Look at it as a blessing and be encouraged at the fact you have come this far, you know as an achievement..One day at a time Michel..kEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.. :woohoo:
 

glasgowchick

Gives Glory to God !!!
I voted for egg nog but I guess I will have to go for the hot chocolate, we can't get egg nog here in the UK, If there is egg nog here then I have yet to find it..If anyone here in the uk has seen it around please please let me know where to buy it. My hubby made it one time, it was ok but nothing like store bought.. :(
 

glasgowchick

Gives Glory to God !!!
NetDoc said:
WHAT IS WASSAIL????

I've sung the song and have NO IDEA what I am singing about! :D


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Done that before, sang my lungs out to a song called Mull of Kintyre and thought " never heard of the place in my life " LOL!!!!!!! I have of course heard of it now but at the time I didn't have a clue LOL!!!!!!!!.

Found this for you tho!!!

Wassailing has been associated with Christmas and New Year as far back as the 1400s. It was a way of passing on good wishes among family and friends.

Wassail is an ale-based drink seasoned with spices and honey. It was served from huge bowls, often made of silver or pewter. The Wassail bowl would be passed around with the greeting, 'Wassail'.

Wassail gets its name from the Old English term "waes hael", meaning "be well". It was a Saxon custom that, at the start of each year, the lord of the manor would shout 'waes hael'. The assembled crowd would reply 'drinc hael', meaning 'drink and be healthy'.

As time went on, the tradition was carried on by people going from door to door, bearing good wishes and a wassail bowl of hot, spiced ale. In return people in the houses gave them drink, money and Christmas fayre and they believed they would receive good luck for the year to come.

The contents of the bowl varied in different parts of the country, but a popular one was known as lambs wool. It consisted of ale, baked apples, sugar, spices, eggs, and cream served with little pieces of bread or toast. It was the bread floating on the top that made it look like lamb's wool.

One of the most popular Wassailing Carols went like this:

Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green,
Here we come a-wassailing,
So fair to be seen:

Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too,
And God bless you and send you,
A happy New Year,
And God send you,
A happy new year.


Wassailing of Apple Trees
Apple trees were sprinkled with wassail to ensure a good crop. Villagers would gather around the apple trees with shotguns or pots and pans and made a tremendous racket to raise the Sleeping Tree Spirit and to scare off demons. A toast was then drunk from the Wassail Cup.

This custom was especially important during a time when part of a labourer's wages was paid in apple cider. Landlords needed a good apple crop to attract good workers. Wassailing was meant to keep the tree safe from evil spirits until the next year's apples appeared.

Apple Tree Wassail
Oh apple tree, we'll wassail thee
And hoping thou wilt bear
For the Lord does know where we may go
To be merry another year

To grow well and to bear well
And so merrily let us be
Let every man drink up his glass
And a health to the old apple tree
Brave boys, and a health to the old apple tree

Today the wassail songs are being sung again at farms and pubs in several parts of England by people who decided to revive the old custom of blessing the crops and singing to good health.

Wassailing Events

Wassailing the Apple Tree, Carhampton, Somerset, Mid January
 

James the Persian

Dreptcredincios Crestin
Gluhwein (or Vin Fiert, they're essentially the same). I've never tried what the English call mulled wine, so I'm not sure if that tastes the same or not, but it's basically red wine, heated with various spices, sugar and lemons. Great, but it seems to affect you (alcohol wise) incredibly quickly and it also tends to make you sweat (particularly if you have black pepper in it like Romanians often do). It's great for colds, though.

James
 

Darkdale

World Leader Pretend
Coffee! Coffee all the time. Pure Kona is good, usually any fresh beans from soil rich South America is good, or dry beans from India or Africa. Must be ground directly before consumption. None of this buying it ground nonsense. Also, no Coffee from Starbucks. They sell over-price crap-coffee harvested with slave labor. Down with Starbucks! No flavored coffee. That should be illegal. No milk. No creme. No sugar. No splenda. Just straight, beautiful black coffee.
 
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