Re: Smashed Avocado on Toast

On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:35:33 +0100, Ben Newsam <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes, 20 ounces is a pint. But... rhubarb... in tea? Seriously?

I read somewhere that the American Customary ounce and the Imperial
ounce don't quite match.  I have a copy of the Rubber Bible, but it's
easier to say "about" than to look it up.

You can use rhubarb anywhere you'd use vinegar or lemon.

Once I stopped at a now-extinct exotic food store and saw a cake of
tamarind.  Yum!  Dried fruit!  Just the fuel I need!  But I couldn't
get any off the brick.

When I got it home, I discovered that tamarind is what you use when
lemon isn't sour enough.


Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Yesterday's post reminded me that I have some tamarind extract in the
freezer, but I decided that vinegar would go better with molasses. I'm
making tea-based switchel by the eighteenth-century recipe: vinegar
and molasses for flavor, ginger to settle the stomach, and oatmeal to
make it soak in faster.  Nothing to filter out, half ice cubes and
half switchel in the bottle, a one-pound sorghum bottle and lots more
ice cubes in the insulated pannier.

Maple syrup weighs eleven pounds to the gallon, honey twelve.  One
twelfth of a gallon is one-third of a quart, and I measured the
contents of the sorghum-mollasses bottle at two-thirds of an American
pint.  That's close to ten fluid ounces, and when I emptied the
sorghum bottle into the water bottle, it filled it about half full.

I love it when the numbers add up.  Wish counting up my cash would do
the same!


Level teaspoon ginger
rounded eighth cloves
heaping eighth cinnamon
level eighth Lite Salt (potassium & sodium chloride)

level teaspoon rolled oats, ground in spice mortar with a couple of
lumps of brown sugar for abrasive.

The sawdust didn't look like enough tea for a double batch, so I
grated some more off the bar.

one bottle of water

After boiling, a healthy glop of sugar-cane molasses.  It's still
bitter, so I must have put in enough tea.  No sign of the rolled oats;
next time I'll use a tablespoon.  I'll wait until morning to add
basalmic vinegar to taste.

Now if I could think of somewhere to go; I need twenty-five miles of
exercise (my cholesterol is up), but every interesting place is too
close, too far, or been-there-done-that.


-- 
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
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