Things You'll Need:
- Costumes
- Holiday Cookbooks
- Beans Or Trinkets
- Party Decorations
- Ale
- Apples
- Cakes
- Hard Cider
- Sugars
- Apples
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Step 1
Throw a Twelfth Night costume party. Decree that your guests dress either as ancient Roman celebrators, as characters from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or in any costumes that suit their (or your) fancy.
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Step 2
Serve lamb's wool, the traditional Twelfth Night drink in England and Ireland, made of cider or ale, sugar, spices and roasted apples. (You'll find the recipe in traditional cookbooks of the British Isles and in many Christmas cookbooks.)
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Step 3
Pour a little lamb's wool or cider on your apple trees if you have any; it's customary to bless them that way on Twelfth Night.
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Step 4
Serve a Twelfth Night cake, sometimes called a king's cake. The recipe and the accompanying game vary slightly from country to country, but everywhere the crucial ingredient is the same: a bean or a trinket baked inside the cake.
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Step 5
Find the piece with the token inside, and become king or queen of the party. Choose a consort, and together you'll reign over the festivities as absolute monarchs who direct your "subjects" to perform ludicrous tasks or behave in ways comically contrary to their usual natures.








