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Wassail Recipe

2 Comments | Filed under Recipes Southern Culture Tara Glass Art Studio Workshops Tara GlassArt Studio slow food
December 15, 2009

 After the December 5 Holiday Ornament Studio Workshop, Claire Weyton, one of the participants in the workshop,  asked if I would share wassail recipe.  Thanks, Claire, I’m so glad you enjoyed it.  Thanks to Margie Satterwhite, we have it here:

Margie Satterwhite’s Wassail  Recipe

1 and 1/2 quarts cranberry juice

2 quarts apple juice

4-5 cinnamon sticks

1/2 cup brown sugar 

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoon whole cloves

1 cup Captain Morgan’s Rum (optional)

Method:

Put juices (and rum, if you like) in a coffee percolator; place spices and brown sugar in the basket where you would normally place the coffee; perk until it turns off automatically. 

Because we are in the South, we serve this in a silver-handled glass carafe that has a tea light underneath to keep the it warm. 

Cheers!

Double recipe for large party.  It is delicious!

 

 

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The Slow Movement…So What’s NEW In the South?

1 Comment | Filed under Slow Life Slow Movement Southern Culture downshifting
March 7, 2008

The Slow Movement web site identifies the slow movement as a “movement which aims to address the issue of “time poverty” through making a connection.” The South has finally arrived.

http://www.slowmovement.com/

A lot of people are wondering “why” the slow movement. What is going on with people? Why are we so stressed? Why is everyone so irritable?
Everybody needs connections. We need connections to family, friends, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents. We need connections to community, to neighbors. Not to long ago people were very connected. Where I grew up, the family backyard was a regular meeting place. Many families grew their own food. What happened? Our society has become so face paced that we are constantly rushing off to the next meeting, next task, next errand. What are we doing? The Slow Movement http://www.slowmovement.com/is a growing cultural shift toward slowing down…downshifting as it were.

Southerners, I think, have always experienced “the slow life” to a greater extent. Now, it is nice that the rest of the world is catching on. http://www.donnabranch.com/