[Sca-cooks] Is it just me, or when did they start doing this???

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Any guesstimate on amounts of dried herbiage? An handful each? two?
--Maire
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Elaine Koogler<mailto:kiridono at gmail.com> 
  To: Cooks within the SCA<mailto:sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org> 
  Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 7:50 AM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Is it just me, or when did they start doing this???


  Well, I really don't have a recipe per se...the lady I got it from is a
  brewer (amongst many other things) in the Midrealm...IIRC, she's a Duchess.
  But I took pot marigold, rose petals, lavender and elderflower (all dried)
  and put them in a cloth bag.  I suspended this in a gallon jar of Scotch
  whiskey for about 4 months.  Then I pulled the bags out...the color was
  gorgeous as the rose petals had turned the Scotch an even darker reddish
  brown.  I added a simple syrup then let it age for about 2 years.  Came out
  pretty well, even if I do say so myself.

  Kiri