Wassail, to Good Health Wassail is a ceremonial beverage made in England. While nowadays it is a spiced cider, recipes vary considerably and often older ones omit the foreign spices instead mainly being made up of Mead/Ale and baked apples. Wassail is often considered to translate "To good health" and is often performed as a sort of good luck and fertility ritual for the new year or harvest. The baked apple addition is often called "Lambswool" considered a corruption of Lammas, the Celtic holiday that likely also once held Wassailing customs. Though they predominantly are done during the twelfths now. Wassail was often drunk out of a communal bowl, and many depictions of Father Christmas with a giant Wassail bowl exist. Wassailing similar to mumming or caroling would see people go house to house performing and demanding food and drink as recompense. Which led to a temporary ban by the puritans. Wassail is often used to bless apple orchards, in the USA are remnants of Wassail: Caroling & Xmas punch.-TLK