Christmas Wassail - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. apple cider
4 juice oranges
2 lemons
1 Tbsp. whole cloves
1 Tbsp. whole allspice
4 cinnamon sticks, broken
sugar to taste
1 qt. dark rum

Preparation

Pour the apple cider into a large saucepan.
Strip the peels from the oranges and lemons, using a vegetable peeler (trim only the zest, none of the white).
Add peels to cider.
Squeeze juice from lemons and oranges; add.
Stir in cloves, allspice and cinnamon sticks.