Forgotten Altars: A Toast to Saint Nicholas

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A Toast to Saint Nicholas

Toast Saint Nicholas tonight with a glass of warm mulled wine,or "Bisschopswijn." It's easy to make and a pleasure to drink. For 2 to 3 servings you will need:

1 liter of wine
An orange
A lemon
20 cloves
2-3 tablespoons of sugar
1 or 2 cinnamon sticks

To make the mulled wine, pour a bottle of wine into a big pot. Take one orange and one lemon and stick ten whole cloves in each. Add them to the wine, along with a cinnamon stick or two and a few tablespoons of sugar. Bring the wine to a gentle boil, then lower the heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer for about an hour. Serve in a heat-proof mug or glass.

Happy Feast Day everyone!

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Forgotten Altars Project:

There are many authentically Catholic familial traditions that have been forgotten. The goal of this blog is to share our odyssey, first in performing an archeology of these traditions, second, in trying to integrate these traditions in our modern lives. We wish to celebrate our heritage as a young Catholic family, recognizing our responsibility to reflect the Kingdom of God and to chart what we have learned for anyone who is also seeking for a more beautiful (sacramental) way to live.

Two other areas are intimate to the Forgotten Altars project:

Southwest Catholic

Locality is the soil and topography of authentic (Catholic) culture. As residents of Phoenix, we wish to explore exactly what being a Catholic in the Southwest means. We are blessed to live in an area with some of the most ancient Catholic roots in America.

Scottish Catholic

As a family of Scottish descent, we wish to perform an archeology of traditional Catholic Scottish Culture. Given the violence of the Scottish Reformation, old Catholic traditions in Scotland require genuine excavation. Although Scotland is associated with some of the most vehemently anti-Catholic sentiments in Europe, to forget that root culture preceding the Reformation, which still stubbornly persists (nearly unnoticed) today, as well as those who bled and died for Scottish Catholicism, would be irreverent.