Cranberry Wassail

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 family-size tea bags or 3 regular tea bags
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon allspice
• 1 (1 lb) can jellied cranberry sauce
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup realemon juice
• 5 1/2 cups water

Recipe

• 1 in a paper coffee filter place the nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice. tie top together with string from teabag.
• 2 steep teabag(s) and spices in 2 1/2 cups water in a sauce pan for about five minutes.
• 3 in a large bowl combine cranberry sauce, 1 1/2 cups boiling water and 3/4 cup sugar. you can do it by hand but an electric mixer saves time and energy. mix until there are no lumps.
• 4 add orange juice, realemon juice and another 1 1/2 cups boiling water.
• 5 remove teabag and spices from sauce pan. add the tea and cranberry mixtures together. you can use a dutch oven or a crock pot.
• 6 you can add more water to dilute the mixture to taste. it will keep for about 10 days, though its never lasted that long.