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From: "Chris Dickinson" <>
Subject: Re: [CUL] [OT] Cumberland Rumbutter - Final Variation
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:06:41 -0000
References: <3C7FD913.243ABF37@netscapeonline.co.uk>


Abel writes:

>This one came in from a reader down Mexico way:-

>>"This Cumbrian Rum Butter recipe looks somewhat similar to our
>>Tequila Spread:
<snip>
>>Sample the tequila to check for quality. Take a large bowl.
>>Check the tequila again. To be sure it is the highest quality,
>>pour one level cup and drink. Repeat.
<snip>
>>Make sure the tequila is still okay.
<snip>
>>Sample the tequila to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two
>>cups of salt. Or something. Who cares? Check the tequila.
>>Don't add the salt, its for the Margaritas.
<snip>


As I wrote privately to this close-to-Mexico person, there's just
not enough checking of the tequila in this recipe.

Anyone like to provide a recipe [no tequila allowed] for:

"Lamplugh puddin - 'a mess of toasted biscuits steeped in hot
ale with spices, a posset'"
[from: William Dickinson 'A Glossary of Words and Phrases of
Cumberland, 1859]


Chris

(from what I suspect is a long line of alcoholic Lamplugh
Dickinsons)


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