[Sca-cooks] Fw: more food challenges!- Angostura Bitters

[Terry Decker]

Angostura Ltd. is alive and well and webbed at www.angostura.com.  The site
has recipes.  The company was having some problems with EU tariffs early in
2003, but that shouldn't have caused them to go under.

Angostura Bitters are an aromatic elixir made from gentian root and other
ingredients originally produced at Agnostura, Venezuela in the early 1820's.
Manufacturing moved to Trinidad around the turn of the 20th Century.

You should be able to find Agnostura Bitters with the mixers in any
supermarket or at any bartending supply store.  I remember seeing them at
Albertson's just last year when I was stocking part of the bar.

Bear

>The point of this long diatribe on Aunt Janet and Old Fashioned drinks is
>that I am almost out of Angostura bitters, which can be used for seasoning
>things other than rich old ladies' liquor. The bottle in my possession,
>indeed, came from Mimi (and is, probably, rightfully yours instead of mine)
>but maybe not because she gave it to me when she was moving somewhere, I
>forget where, and I haven't used it that much all these years. Used
>sparingly, it is a pleasant and unusual addition to fruit, soups, and
salads
>(and the label claims it's good in mincemeat pies, as well, but I hate
>mincemeat pies, based on the only one I ever tasted, so  I wouldn't know.)
>
>At any rate, the company that used to import it from wherever - I believe
it
>was Italy - is mentioned on the internet but has long been gone. The bottle
>I have in my possession, whose label is not completely intact, claims that
>it was imported/made/ invented by a company in Elmhurst, N.Y., the
>Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. If there is a replacement-type for this sturdy
>little condiment, I don't know how to find it and I suspect that, even if
>there is some place that makes something similar, the fountainhead of its
>source is not located around Greenville, N.C. No fatback is incorporated in
>this concoction, you see. Much love, Mom
>
>
>Saint Phlip,