[Sca-cooks] OOP -- Vegan chocolate truffles
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Tue Jul 6 09:40:24 PDT 2004
Also sprach Olwen the Odd:
>One question. You age scotch is sherry?? I'm not a scotch drinker
>(ick) but I do use (and like) sherry a lot in cooking. I simply
>cannot understand how this would make scotch any better though. How
>do you do it? Measure out the amount of scotch you need and put in
>a like amount of sherry? Or would you use more sherry? Or did you
>mean something else altogether?
I believe MacAllan (among others) ages some of their higher-end
whiskeys in used sherry casks, which gives it a distinctive flavor.
Not aggressively like sherry, just different from the stuff they age
in plain oak barrels, say.
I prefer my MacAllan in a glass, thank you, with seltzer on the side.
Adamantius
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