SC - Jameson's heresy :)

[Gretchen M Beck]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 13-Nov-97 Re: SC - Jameson's
heresy :) by Philip & Susan Troy at asan 
> As for my insistence on Irish whisky in an Irish soup, I will only say
> that it seems more appropriate, although I wouldn't say I insist on it.
> I would have to say that there are probably more drinkable Scotches out
> there than there are drinkable Irish whiskys, but the best of the Irish
> whiskys aren't massively inferior to the best of the Scotches. Besides,
> I feel that the Irish should be cut a bit of slack for having invented
> the stuff in the first place. It's not as if the absentee landlord
> system that led to the abandonment of many of the old brewing and
> distilling standards was something the Irish chose for themselves.
> Bloody Normans  ;  )

And also brings us back to one of the basic rules of cooking--for 99
44/100% of your dishes, don't use wine/beer/liquor that you wouldn't be
willing to drink yourself (or if you don't drink, that you wouldn't be
willing to serve someone who knows what's what)

toodles, margaret 
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