SC - Feast Beverages
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Sat Mar 4 06:28:16 PST 2000
In a message dated 3/3/2000 11:59:41 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
troy at asan.com writes:
<< My experience with other areas
where the populace has been accustomed to receiving certain dishes every
time, such as honey butter and herb butter, I have simply announced in
the morning that there will be no honey butter and no herb butter, but
there will, for example, be an herb cheese, olive oil, and honey for
dipping bread into. People thought about it for a second, then got on
with life. I expect that unless your alternative beverages are something
really bizarre, your experience would not be too different >>
I could wish that it were so, however....
Sweetened Ice Tea is insidious in Southern Life. The only meal where it is
not commonly served is breakfast. We take it in our thermoses to work. We
drink it with meals. We drink it in the evenings watching TV, or sitting on
the porch, or reading, or sewing, or participating in our hobbies. We get up
in the middle of the night and have a glass or two. Some of us never drink
water. Some of us never drink coffee, or soda. Some of us never touch
alcohol, but we ALL drink ice tea. It's use has evolved in the last few
decades to the point that you can get Unsweetened Tea at most restaurants,
but only as an alternative. They still serve the sweet stuff. I remember
how surprised I was when I moved out here that the tea in the pitcher on the
table at the restaurant wasn't sweet, they didn't have any that was
presweetened, and I had to sweeten my own!
For those new to the list, we had a discussion on here not so very long ago
on the proper way to sweeten tea. Most of us born in the South who learned
to cook in the South aqreed that it must be at room temperature or warmer to
be properly sweetened. Colder temperatures result in having undisolved sugar
crystals and having to use much more sugar to get the proper degree of sweet
taste.
Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)
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