Sounds more like a Somerset one to me!!!! Wassailing is still carried on today in many parts of Somerset, particularly around the Taunton/Minehead area. Regards Pat W Bruton Somerset Researching Somerset -BEALE-KEEN-BRISTER-WILLIAMS-STOCK-HAWKEY -HAWKINS-BATSON Dorset - KEECH-DUNHAM-ACKERMAN-IRONSIDE-LEA-WALLIS-HOUNSELL-SAINT-RUSSELL-WOODSFO RD Durham - WARDELL-CHAPMAN-METHLEY Yorkshire - JEFFREY-DOBSON-DOYLE-MAUGHAN-CLIFFORD-BARKER-WADE-SWALE-ENGLAND-BECK-WAR DMAN-CARMALT -----Original Message----- From: Geoff [mailto:geoffrey.everest@free.fr] Sent: 08 May 2004 08:49 To: ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DOR-LIFE] Re - Wassailing and other Dorset customs With the apples and cider your recipe seems more Dorset than the one I came up with..... "Put into a bowl half a pound of Lisbon sugar; pour on it a pint of warm beer; grate into it a nutmeg and some ginger; add four glasses of sherry and five additionalk pints of beer; stir it well; sweeten it to your taste. Let it stand covered up for two or three hours; then put into it three or four slices of bread cut thin and toasted brown, and it is fit for use. A couple of slices of lemon may be introduced. Bottle the liquor, and in a few days it may be drunk in a state of effervescence." The Year Book of Daily Recreations by William Hone (1832). It sounds more like a time-bomb than a drink, and the'state of effervescence' probably applies to the person brave enough to try it, rather than liquor itself! Geoff ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== This site is all about the Fanily Record Centre in London where you can look census returns, some registers and the GRO indexes: http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/frc/ ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237