[Sca-cooks] Baileys, was Frittering Laurels

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Huette von Ahrens wrote:

>--- Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>What I really want is to find a recipe for
>>home-made "Irish Cream 
>>Liqueur" that does not resort to any
>>convenience packaging, such as 
>>=condensed= milk or =instant= coffee.  I
>>persevered and found a 
>>Kahlua-type coffee liqueur recipe that used
>>coffee beans NOT instant, 
>>after all, and MAN!  Was that massively better
>>than any instant coffee 
>>concoction.   I will unbend as far as using
>>powdered cocoa rather than 
>>grind my own nibs but that's about it.
>>
>>I may wind up having to reverse-engineer the
>>recipe myself.  Will count 
>>on Missy Huette to throw herself into Certain
>>Peril during the test 
>>phase of this operation.
>>
>>Selene
>>
>
>Okay, but only because you are such a dear
>friend.  I don't like coffee and, although
>I am very, very fond of chocolate, I can't
>stand Kahlua.  I was shocked to see that
>Bailey's has coffee in it.  I certainly can't
>taste it.  So your challenge, Selene dearest,
>is to make a beverage like Baileys, where
>the taste of coffee is well masked.
>
>Huette
>
Don't worry.  It's a subtle nuance rather than a foreground flavor.  I 
might get weird and lightly brown some cocoa nibs for the toasty note 
instead.

How are you on coconut?  I was thinking of a side experiment using a 
coconut milk base for the lactose-incompetent amongst us.

Selene