Wassail (middle english 'wæs hæl' - ‘be you healthy’) refers both to the salute 'waes hail' and to the drink of wassail, a hot mulled cider drunk as part of wassailing, an english ritual intended to ensure a good apple harvest the following year. Historically, the drink is a mulled cider, mulled beer, or mead, made with sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg and topped with toast. A group then sings: “old apple tree, old apple tree, we've come to wassail thee, to bear and to bow apples enow, hats full, caps full, three bushel bags full, barn floors full and a little heap under the stairs.”

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cut ginger, ground nutmeg

Size/type: 1.5 ounce spices - brews 1 gallon

Shelf life: 3 years