Thread: What are you doing to bring in the new year?

Originally Posted by Happy2BMe

My closest peeps will be coming over and enjoying a chocolate fondue party with me. They all live within 3 blocks of me which is a good thing since it just started to SNOW!! Just a tiny bit, but I still love it. We don't get tons of snow, so it always is fun for me.

I want to come to your home!

Going to my brother's to watch LSU play Clemson ... build a bonfire in the backyard with the kids... popcorna dn junk food... a kiss at midnight from my honey... that is about it.

Well here it is.... 9:00 PM & I am burning up with a fever. I'm drinking Libby's cherry juice & I will be eating a bag of popcorn.

I do have a bottle of apple boilo that I should heat up & drink some since it is good cold medicine but I just don't want it.

Here is what boilo is.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilo the people in this area live by it. It's best to make it from moonshine but since my friend can't get any we drove down to Md. for some grain alcohol to make it

Originally Posted by wobblypops

Well here it is.... 9:00 PM & I am burning up with a fever. I'm drinking Libby's cherry juice & I will be eating a bag of popcorn.

I do have a bottle of apple boilo that I should heat up & drink some since it is good cold medicine but I just don't want it.

Here is what boilo is.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilo the people in this area live by it. It's best to make it from moonshine but since my friend can't get any we drove down to Md. for some grain alcohol to make it

i'm from PA too and have never heard of it! i may have to try it since i've been sick lately...

Boilo is a traditional Yuletide or Holiday drink in the Coal Region of northeastern and east central Pennsylvania.

The traditional Lithuanian name is "Krupnickas."[1]

Characteristically boilo has a standard recipe including oranges, lemons, nutmeg, cloves, caraway seed, honey, ginger ale, and anise seed. The traditional base ingredient in Boilo is moonshine but most receipes have replaced home-brewed moonshine with blended whiskey; the most common being Four Queens 100 proof blended whiskey. Other recipes can be made more specific including Honeyberry[disambiguation needed] Boilo, "Tomata" Boilo, Blueberry Boilo, and Apple Pie Boilo.

Some believe it to have curing properties for the onset of fall/winter related ailments such as a cold or influenza.

There are many boilo taste test contests held annually in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania where home brewers compete over whose recipe is most authentic and whose Boilo is the most easy drinking. The Annual Pfeiffenberger Boilo Contest is among the most sought after and intense of such contests. Dozens of family boilo recipes are under heavy scrutiny and a series of crucial voting parameters and rounds of taste-testing decide the outright winner. Only one rule applies: No Roeder can win again.

As of December 2012 an "instant" version of the drink is available commercially. However the drink is a much sweeter boilo, so try using more whiskey.

I've only heard about it since I moved to schuylkill county. I grew up in Berks, right next to it and never knew about it.

I've heard of it but didn't know what was in it, my neighbor and I were talking the other day and moonshine came up. I told her I can remember as a kid they would have stands sat up at the fair about moonshine kills. I was raised in the South. Anyway she was saying she thought that is what is used in Boilo.
I thought it was a drink all over PA, I guess I thought wrong, nothing new there,LOL

How are you feeling today wobblypops?

Originally Posted by 3lilpigs

sleeping until the annoying neighbors wake me with their fireworks.

loving all your replies...3lilpigs, you jinxed me...
Right after the 6th harry potter film, my grandson and i dozed off...
Then @ 11:28 pm scooped up his son, then he scooped me up and into the wheelchair,
what for? A fireworks show that he paid for and fired off himself!!!
Lmbo! He even took me in my pajamas, butthole didn't care, or actually he did,
he brought a blanket to cover aiden and i. At first i was aggrevated, but the
smiles on aiden's face was glorious!

Carrolin, that was nice of your son to do that for you and his son.

I googled boilo to see if I could find out more on it.
http://www.squidoo.com/boilo-moonshi...l-pennsylvania
Brewing up a batch of wassail-like boilo is a time-honored traditional event, with roots in the early mining communities and cultures of northeast Pennsylvania, especially in the Schuylkill county area.

That is why wobblypops and I have heard of it, we are both in Schuylkill County.