[Sca-cooks] pickled beets?

[Susan Fox-Davis]

> >So, what was the impression of this switchel? Or did folks suddenly
> >stop drinking it and refuse to drink any more after they realized it
> >wasn't wine?
>
> I'm not sure. Most of my attention was elsewhere, but the impression
> I got was that if you could handle switchel at all, this was rather
> good switchel. (I tasted it and lived.) But some could not get past
> the big ole glass of beet-juice and vinegar thing...

Reminds me of how æduin learned to look for writing on bottles at my house
before drinking.  I really had written on there that it was no longer apple
juice but undiluted sekanjabin syrup, and he took a healthy slug... Bleeeech!

Selene, Caid