SC - big spice question

[Marilyn Traber]

The solids only stayed in the water that I simmered for 30 minutes to extract
trhe oils before i put in the honey to sterilize. The only non water non honey
substance that stayed ion the fermenter for the duration was the yeast. They
bubbled away quite happily for the better part of 6 months and 2 filterings[well,
the dead yeast clumps and can be filtered out with gauze leaving the live
beasties in to ferment more...]
margali

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/17/99 3:01:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> margali at 99main.com writes:
>
> << I have made mead with clove as an ingredient, and i multiplies my 1 gallon
>  recipe into 5 gallons and it came out so overwhelmingly clove it was
>  undrinkable!

When making a recipe, for example the mead, If my one gallon batch calls for 5
cloves, when i make a 5 gallon batch, i would use 25 whole cloves, I done buy
ground cloves, and for liquors and cooking unless it specifically calls for
powdered cloves that remain i the food, i use whole and remove them[actually, i
dont particularly like cloves, and tend to go short with them...]
If you remember, last summer when we were discussing measuring, I was the one who
pointed out that there were differences between the liquid and dry measures...;-)

> The clove problem is simple, it sat for several months allowing the total
> flavor to leach out. Cloves in a stew or cake don't leech out in those
> quantities.   Also, bothe examples are extreme if
> taken only at face value. There is no comparison between brewing mead and
> cookery. ::-)
>
> Point of faxt, I yhace alwaysw scaled up recpes using DRY MEASURE  increases
> point for point and have NEVER had a bad recip[e doing so 3 tsp=1 T. * T =
> 1/2 cup dry. That is NOT 8 ozs dry which is a completely different ball of
> wax. I agree with Master A. I think yuo may be confusing liquid meaasure with
> dry measure whenn writing down your equivalents. MATH is the key and NEVER
> diverting from dry measurement terms to liquid measure,ent terms.
>
> OT- Helen p[lease write me privately, ASAP!
>
> Ras

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