Subj : Sweetning was: Coffee
To   : Ruth Haffly
From : Dave Drum
Date : Wed Jun 19 2024 07:44:02

-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> I also drink my tea (and iced tea) straight up. My grandmother used

 RH> I used to put both milk and sugar in my hot tea, just sugar in ice tea.
 RH> Cut out the milk long ago, switched to a sugar sub (stevia) quite a
 RH> while ago for both hot and ice tea.

 DD> to serve tooth-achingly sweet iced tea - which I abhorred. I do,

 RH> We adopted a descriptive phrase we heard on "Star Trek; The Next
 RH> Generation" to desscribe something super sweet--Tooth Itching.

Asd me and the boob tube are not good friends I missed that.

 DD> sometimes, in the cold months add a little honey to my cuppa. Never
 DD> sugar.

 RH> We keep both honey and raw sugar on hand for sweetening, no white sugar
 RH> in the house. The raw adds just a hint of a molasses taste.

I keep sugar for recipes where it's called for. But a pound of C&H lasts
a looooooooong time. You probably couldn't use my molasses substitute
which I pick up at the Illinois Products Farmer's Market - sorghum. It's
a cousin of maize (corn) ans might trigger Steve's allergy.

 DD> I leaned a trick about instant coffee. If you make your cup of coffee
 DD> as normal - then put it in the microwave for a minute. It does
 DD> something to the flavour that makes it almost taste like brewed
 DD> coffee.

 RH> This was in the pre microwave days, had to heat the water on the stove.

 DD> Also pre-single serve coffee maker days. A Keurig would have made
 DD> things nice for your Pop.

 RH> Yes, but they were later coming onto the scene than microwaves.

 DD>      8<----- SLICE ----->8

 DD> My go-to watch/clock guy fell off his twig several years ago. But
 DD> there is a local (and thriving) clock company with a repair department
 DD> that I am told does good work. I'm all digital these days having given
 DD> my last (heirloom) clock to my brother and sister-in-law. A pixture of
 DD> one just like it is here https://tinyurl.com/OLD-CLOX

 RH> We use a local guy who's 3rd generation clock/watch repair man. I
 RH> inherited another clock that was my grandparents, plus we have a
 RH> couckoo clock we bought in Germany that have all visited him at one
 RH> time or another. We've got 2 other chiming clocks, plus a few digital
 RH> ones; we like the sound of a chiming clock in the house. Anyway, this
 RH> guy told us how to prepare a grandfather clock for transporting; my
 RH> sister and brother ignored Steve when he passed on the information and
 RH> now the grandfather clock that was my great grand, grand and parent's
 RH> clock doesn't work. She doesn't have the $$$ to fix it either so it's
 RH> just taking up room in her house, sad.

AFAIK if you immobilise the pendulum and tie the shime tubes together
you should be good to go as long as you use reasonable caution in the
handling.

 DD> People like that who think they know more than the guy who wrote the
 DD> book, get little sympathy from me. It's on their shoulders.

 RH> Yes but it's a shame to know the clock is just sitting there, a big
 RH> dust catcher. It has the old tubular, very mellow chimes. We'd have
 RH> taken it if we had the room but don't so...........

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Didivs'ka Iushka (Grandfather Soup)
 Categories: Soups, Vegetables, Dairy
      Yield: 1 Batch
 
      2 c  Water
      2 ts Salt
    1/4 c  Milk or Half & Half
      3 tb Butter
      2 md Potato; cubed 1/2"
      1 md Onion; chopped
      1    Carrot; julienned
    1/2 c  Flour
 
  Cube the potatoes 1/2" after peeling them. Julienne the
  carrot, and chop the onion. Bring the water to a slow
  boil and add the potatoes & carrot, salt, and cook for
  6 minutes.
  
  Mix the flour, 1 tablespoon of butter, and enough of
  the butter to make a stiff dough. Pinch off pieces of
  the dough and roll into 1/2" ball and drop into the
  slow boiling soup.
  
  Saute the onion in the remaining butter until they
  start to brown. Add the milk & onions to the soup and
  cook for 5 more minutes.
  
  Origin: Oksanna Levshenko, Kiev-Ukraine, circa 1996
  
  From: Don Houston
  
  From: http://www.recipesource.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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