SC - [TY] Primitive site joke

[Christine A Seelye-King]

Aelfwyn asked:
>> Hello all, I will be doing the feast for Northern Lights A&S on March 
>> 21. Our site is a school, so dry. We have encountered problems before with a 
>> school when alcohol was used in cooking part of the feast. I have tried to 
>> select recipes that avoid the use of any, but there are some sticky points. I 
>> can use nonalcoholic wines and beers if need be, but does anyone have any 
>> experience using these in period recipes? 

To which Ingus replied:
> Other than the obvious "precook" option, there are a couple things you 
> might do to alleviate the site authorities.
> 
> 1)A week or so before the event, go buy a bottle of Ocean Spray grape 
> juice.  Drink it, then put the wine in the grape juice bottle (white 
> grape juice for white wine, red for red, of course...) and take the wine 
> to the event in the grape juice jar.  Get apple juice to put beer in.
> 
> 2)If they're REALLY sticky about it and you're REALLY worried, then boil 
> the wine and/or beer at home for 10-20 minutes.  In that time, all the 
> alcohol should have evaporated, but will still keep the flavor of the 
> given spirit.  Let it cool, and pour it into the grape juice/apple juice 
> jar (see #1).
> 
> One other aside....non-alcoholic beer has alcohol in it....a VERY SMALL 
> AMOUNT but it's there, so if they're cool with non-al beer, they should 
> have no problem with #2.

Now, these are just my opinions but:

  Option number one seems very dishonest to me.  If they have 
specified that it is a DRY site, then you should obey their rules if 
you want to use the site in the future.

  Option number two is just plain wrong.  I'm sorry, but alcohol 
doesn't evaporate (not to the degree that you imply).

I generally substitute white or red grape juice for wines, and I 
don't pick recipes that require beer.  Although I certainly can't 
tell you not to use alcohol, you might want to go the pre-cook route 
wherever possible if you do use it.

And to beat a VERY dead horse (please don't hit me for it), don't 
forget to list the alcohol in the ingredients list you post -- non 
alcoholic beer still has enough alcohol in it to make me sick for 
days, and to make those of us with religious objections very unhappy.

Claricia Nyetgale
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