Re: Smashed Avocado on Toast

Joy Beeson wrote, though the Organization header says "A noiseless
patient Spider":

>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.

After all that faff, I hope it was worth the effort!
-- 
Ben