{"id":33211,"date":"2025-12-12T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=33211"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:17:53","slug":"christmas-wassail-bowl-history-christmas-holidays-traditions-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=33211","title":{"rendered":"Christmas: Wassail Bowl History #Christmas #holidays #Traditions #Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Christmas: Wassail Bowl History #Christmas #holidays #Traditions #Customs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term wasseling refers to the jovial revelry and carousing that went on in historic England when all classes of society would gather around a common banquet-table and the wassail bowl and indulge in the most unrestrained joviality and merriment around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wassail Bowl:<\/strong> Most great houses had a wassel-bowl, or cup, frequently of massy silver. Toasts were \u201cDrine heil,\u201d or \u201cWas hail,\u201d from which the howl derives its name but were replaced around the nineteenth century by \u201cCome, here\u2019s to you,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll pledge you.\u201d Now, we toast with the simplified version of \u2018Here\u2019s to you\u2019. As the hour of twelve approached, carol-singers would prepare and bell-ringers would place themselves at their post to usher in the morning of the Nativity with lots of rejoicing and with bands of music parading the towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> <\/strong>In some parishes in the West of England, carol-singers adjourn to the church to sing in Christmas-day, a remnant probably of popery, as in Catholic countries there were frequently church-services held at this time. In the 16th century, Tusser prescribed for Christmas: good drink, a good fire in the hall, brawn, pudding, and mustard withall, capon, or turkey, cheese, apples, nuts, and jolly carols. In rich houses, a wassail cup would be filled with rich wine, sweet and spicy, and with roasted apples bobbing on the surface. 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