[Sca-cooks] Patting myself on the back

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:38:23 -0600
  Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Ro commented:
>> Damn.  I have a ways to go to match most of you folks as 
>>a Medieval
>> cook, but I just tasted my raspberry cordial (mellowing 
>>now 3 years).
>>
>> I make a FINE cordial.
>>
>> Ro, preening a little before making more cookies
> 
> Hey, keep the feathers out of the cookies! :-)
> 
> Congratulations on the cordial. But why were you aging 
>it for 3  years? Did you just set it aside and forget 
>about it? (That's the  only way a pair of my mead bottles 
>ever got to be aged several  years). I have always heard 
>that cordials didn't need a long aging  time. Did you 
>taste it through the aging process? If so, did you 
> notice the aging changing the taste?
> 
> Stefan
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom 
>of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
> StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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> 
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