[Sca-cooks] food on St Val's day

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
>Red "licorice" is ok as long as you consider it red chewy candy with
>vaguely fruit-related artificial flavoring. And you can tie knots with it,
>and it's useful in making gingerbread houses.

I've never cared for the red stuff, whatever one calls it and 
whatever shape it's in. And i really don't like black "licorice" 
either, much as i have tried, for aesthetic reasons. Too bad i don't 
like it because black ice cream looks so cool.

When i finally tasted REAL licorice - the little twiggy sticks from 
the herbalist - while i am not fond of the flavor, i find it much 
more tolerable than the anise flavored black stuff.

Additionally, for some reason, there are other colors and flavors of 
"licorice shoestrings" - such as chocolate and a chartreuse green, 
which flavor i don't know. I know of their existence only through a 
SOCK KNITTING book i have, as someone actually knitted a pair of 
socks with the pale yellow-green "shoestrings" knitting the chocolate 
ones to make the toes, heels, and a pattern around the cuff...

Sheesh.

ISTR that she gave them to her children or grandchildren as a 
humorous gift, and they ate them.

Anahita