[Sca-cooks] Po' Folks

[Margaret N]

Sue Clemenger wrote:

>Sweet tea? Euuuuuw....
>--maire, yankee roots showing as she shudders ever-so-delicately ;o)
>
Heh - that's okay, y'all get your revenge. That's a mean trick, serving 
that stuff you call "sweet tea" to Southerners. No wonder y'all won't 
drink the stuff - I wouldn't either!

Recipe follows,
Margaret Northwode
in the land of forty billion gravies and sauces - and Sweet Tea. With 
all this fat, we need the antioxidants. :)

To Mak Proper Swet Te
Take ye haf-gallon of pur water, unto it threw iv gret tebags or viii 
litel, het till it be enow, yet not to bitter. Pour hit to clen i-gallon 
vessel, unto it threw a cupful fyn whit sugar, and stir till gon. Then 
add ye haf-gallen pur water et stir ygin. Make hit y-chill. Serv at 
table in tall glases with ice to ii inches below lyp. An ye wish, add 
bruised mentha levis.