Yule Brew🥃A Christmas Eve Tradition 🎄

Every year for Christmas  eve🎄 my family would have a meatless meal, a extra place setting would be set at the dining room table, for our family members who had passed on, and a bottle of whiskey and one shot glass would be passed around the table till it was gone, lol it was a big family 😍

Every one had a garlic clove dipped into salt and sometimes honey for good health for the year.  I remember my husband's first time with this tradition he ate the whole clove at once! Lol😳 instead of little nibbles throughout the meal. Oh well lesson learned. So we have continued this tradition throughout the years and now our son continues as well.

I hope you enjoy the recipe for what I now call our Yule Brew🥃🎄A smooth apple and cinnamon infused bourbon. 

Enjoy

Allison 

Yule Brew

One golden delicious Apple chopped 

2 or 3 -3" cinnamon sticks

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 

3 cups of bourbon

 A 1/4 cup of simple syrup.

 Place 1st 3 ingredients in a large ball jar or container

 Add bourbon Stir cover let stand at Room temperature at least 4 days I do 7

 Stir once A-day.

Stir to distribute flavors 

Pour bourbon mixture through a fine wire mesh strainer.

 Discard solids.

 Stir in simple syrup and pour into a clean canning jar or fancy bottle cover and store in fridge.🎄

Simple syrup is equal amounts of sugar and water, heating till sugar melts.