American Women's Club of Hamburg Currents Magazine November/December 2013 | Page 18

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Holiday R ecipes from M embers
by Jenny M.

One warm December day, when we were living in south Texas, a neighbor asked me for a recipe for a wassail cup. She thought
that British people went “a wassailing” every Christmas and wanted the ingredients for her Christmas party. Without reminding
her that we have moved on from Dickens` times and that I hadn`t been invited to her party, I looked in a recipe book from the
old country and found a recipe for mulled wine, which we both agreed would fit the bill. Here it is along with two recipes for two
new festive drinks from the old country.

Drivers` Punch

Serves eight
From
Good
Homes
Magazine (printed 2008)
100 g cranberries
2.5 cm water
100 ml cranberry juice
500 ml blood orange juice
1 lime, juiced
1 orange, cut into wedges
Mint to decorate
Method:
Put the cranberries into
a freezer safe container,
cover with the water and
freeze until solid. Mix the
cranberry juice and the
blood orange juice with
the juice from the lime.
To serve, smash the frozen
cranberries into shards
and place in eight highball
glasses. Top with the mixed
juices and garnish with a
sprig of mint and a wedge
of orange.

Mulled Wine
From Mrs. Beeton`s Everyday
Cookery (printed 1969)
½ pint water (500 ml)
Nutmeg
6 cloves
½ lemon
Small cinnamon stick
1 and ½ pints claret
Sugar to taste
Heat the water gently in a
pan. Stir in the grated nutmeg
and the rind of the lemon.
Add the cinnamon stick.
Bring to the boil and cook for
ten minutes. Strain the liquid
into a basin and add the wine.
Sweeten to taste.
Return to the pan and heat
gently without boiling.
Serve at once.

Apple-berry Mulled Wine
Serves twelve
From Good Homes Magazine (printed
2008)
Two 750 ml bottles red wine
1 litre cloudy apple juice
115 g caster sugar
Small cinnamon stick
2 star anise
3 tbsp Cointreau
100 g frozen Fruits of the Forest (or a
bag of mixed berries)
1 small apple, sliced into rings
Method:
Pour the wine and apple juice into a
large pan, add the sugar, cinnamon
stick and star anise
Heat gently, stirring occasionally
until the sugar dissolves and continue
heating gently for a further 15 minutes
Just before serving, swirl in the
Cointreau, frozen fruit and the apple
rings.

“Here We Come A-wassailing” is a traditional English carol and a Wassail cup (or bowl) is a hot drink to warm the fingers and
toes of the carol singers .

by Mary L.P.

R aspber r y Walnut Baked Br ie

1 sheet puff pastry (I use a frozen
one or Blätterteig if you need the
German term for it)
1 (8 ounce) round Brie cheese
1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam
(Himbeermarmalade)
2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
(Walnüße)
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with
aluminum foil and lightly grease with cooking spray.
Lay the puff pastry onto the prepared baking sheet. Center the Brie wheel
onto the pastry. Spread the jam evenly over the top of the Brie. Sprinkle
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