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JAMES KIBBIE

ELEANOR KIBBIE'S WASSAIL BOWL
​Try serving my mother’s wassail recipe to your church choir before Christmas services. The combination of warm juices and tea benefits the voice.
INGREDIENTS
  • 2 cups (400 grams) sugar
  • 3 cups (700 ml) water
  • 1 tsp (2 grams) whole cloves
  • 1 tsp (3 grams) crystallized or ground ginger
  • 2 sticks cinnamon
  • 2 cups (475 ml) orange juice
  • 1/2 cup (120 ml) lemon juice
  • 1 quart (1 L) apple cider
  • 2 cups (475 ml) strong tea
METHOD
  1. Make a syrup of the sugar and water by cooking 10 to 15 minutes. 
  2. Tie spices in a cheesecloth bag and soak it overnight in the syrup. 
  3. Combine spiced syrup with the remaining ingredients and heat. Ladle into cups from a decorative serving bowl.
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James Kibbie
​James Kibbie is internationally renowned as an authority on the organ music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He has performed the complete cycle of Bach organ works in a series of eighteen recitals and is in constant demand as a Bach recitalist and clinician.  His recordings of the complete Bach works on historic baroque organs in Germany have been welcomed with enthusiastic critical and audience acclaim. Thanks to generous support from Dr. Barbara Furin Sloat in honor of J. Barry Sloat, the University of Michigan is offering Dr. Kibbie’s recordings of all 274 Bach works as free internet downloads at www.blockmrecords.org/bach.
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