Christiana Campbell'S Tavern'S Wassail - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
4 cinnamon sticks
3 lemon slices
1/2 cup water
2 cups pineapple juice
2 cups orange juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
6 cups dry red wine
1 cup dry sherry
lemon slice (to garnish)

Preparation

Combine the sugar, cinnamon sitcks, lemon slices, and water in a large saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Boil for 5 minutes and strain. Discard cinnamon sticks and lemon slices.
Pour the pineapple juice, orange juice, lemon juice, wine and sherry into a large saucepan and simmer over medium heat for several minutes. Do not bring to a rolling boil!
Combine the wine mixture and sugar syrup in a serving bowl. Ladle into mugs and garnish with lemon slices.
Serve hot.