Directions See How It's Made. 1  Bring water to a boil. 2  Place sorrel, ginger and cloves into boiled water. 3  Boil for 2 minutes, turn heat off.  Cover and allow to steep for 12 to 24 1  hours. Strain and sweeten to taste.  Add rum or wine if 1  desired. Serve cold, on  ice. Submit a Correction.
Ballad, short narrative folk song, whose distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages and persists to the present day in communities where literacy, urban contacts, and mass media have little affected the habit of folk singing. The term ballad is also applied to any narrative composition suitable for singing.
The tone of a Ballad is often tragic with the language being simple and impassive, and there is usually a refrain (repeated line or verse) linking up everything together. The verse form is also called ballad metre, a quatrain (4-line verse).