[Sca-cooks] sugarcones was: casseroles and other stray threads

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Actually, that derived from an old cavalry custom where crossed sabers
supported a sugar cone which was allowed to burn down into a filled punch
bowl. No idea what it did to the sabers, but it couldn't have been good.

    Sieggy
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> Bethra Spicewell schrieb:
>
> > Ro-Tel is available up here, too. My pantry shelf is never without at
> > least one can, usually 3 or more.  There's a large Hispanic population
> > just across the southern border into MA, so there's a lot of really
> > interesting things at one of the supermarkets to buy and try. Last
> > month I got a sugar cone. No, not for ice cream - a cone of sugar,
> > about 4 in high and 2 across the bottom. Not sure what I'll do with it
> > yet, but there are possibilities.
>
> Have you ever heard of 'Feuerzangenbowle' or
> 'punch royale'? It's a German traditional thing,
> more beloved I guess for its spectacle than its
> taste. Basically you need a copper pot and a metal
> grid, frame or bridge that you can put over it to
> suspend the sugarcone. It has to look something
> like this
>
>     /\ sugarcone
> ---------- grid or similar
>  |      |
>  |      | copper pot
>  |______|
>
>
> The pot is filled with 2-3 liters of red wine, hot
> but not boiling. Add the zest of one orange and
> 4-5 whole cloves. Then spoon some strong arrack
> over the sugarcone and set it alight. Repeat until
> the entire sugarcone has melted and dripped down
> into the wine and dissolved. The resulting
> alcoholic and extremely sweet drink is
> traditionally served in mugs on saucers covered in
> coarse salt soaked with spirits and - yes -
> burning. In a dark room. It isn't period, but it
> looks damned impressive (can't vouch for the
> taste, I never dared).
>
> yours pyromanically
>
> Giano