[Sca-cooks] Smoke Essence.

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Vladimir wrote:
>  What exactly is Smoke essence?

I've got several bottles of what i'm used to calling "Liquid Smoke" 
in my pantry... One only needs to use very few drops to a recipe for 
an average sized family. It has a "flat" rather than complex flavor, 
but there are times when one wants to add the taste and smell of 
smoke to suggest that something has been smoked or cooked over a wood 
fire and this is handy when one just has no way to do this - Useful 
when one lives in an urban apartment, like me.

Here's what the label says:
Wright's
Concentrated
All Natural
Hickory Seasoning
Liquid Smoke
More than twice as concentrated as the other leading brands
3.5 Fl.Oz (103 ml)
(and it's kosher - got a U in a circle)

On the back it just says "Wright's Hickory Seasoning"

It says it contains water and natural hickory smoke concentrate. I 
guess that's basically the creosote from burnt hickory wood :-)

I've got a couple bottles because i had a bottle, couldn't find it 
when i needed it, so i got another... They last a LONG time - 
although i noticed there's some precipitate in at least one of the 
bottles - could be 3-1/2 years old or more.

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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita