Comments on: Spirited Cuisine: Rum http://mybrilliantmistakes.com/2007/05/spirited-cuisine-rum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spirited-cuisine-rum The personal blog of Cynthia Closkey Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:16:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jamie http://mybrilliantmistakes.com/2007/05/spirited-cuisine-rum/#comment-34589 Jamie Sun, 09 May 2010 12:14:14 +0000 http://mybrilliantmistakes.com/?p=498#comment-34589 Back in the day rum was drunk straight. When prohibition put an and to liquor made legally. Bootleggers where getting their supply from guys who made rum in their barth tubs and that gave them a nickname of rock gut rum makers. You needed to add fruit juice and other masking agents to bare the taste of it. You can drink rum on the rocks if you have the taste for it. Back in the day rum was drunk straight. When prohibition put an and to liquor made legally. Bootleggers where getting their supply from guys who made rum in their barth tubs and that gave them a nickname of rock gut rum makers. You needed to add fruit juice and other masking agents to bare the taste of it. You can drink rum on the rocks if you have the taste for it.

]]> By: Cindy http://mybrilliantmistakes.com/2007/05/spirited-cuisine-rum/#comment-393 Cindy Thu, 10 May 2007 16:58:02 +0000 http://mybrilliantmistakes.com/?p=498#comment-393 Peter: Excellent question. I could say this is a trade secret, but on the contrary I would prefer that more people had a stash of Orgeat on hand. One can order Orgeat on the web of course (from Fee Brothers for example http://www.feebrothers.com), but that's no help if you want a Mai Tai today. One can also make it at home (http://fxcuisine.com/default.asp?Display=26), but ... no. Giant Eagle: nothing. Maybe Trader Joe's or Whole Foods carry French or Italian syrups, and surely somebody in the Strip District does, but all of those were a bit too far for me this time around. Fortunately for me, Cummings Candy and Coffee on Main Street in Butler has a whole shelf of Torani syrups, for use in lattes. So I stopped in and asked my dear friend Patty if I could have an ounce or two, and she kindly obliged with a quarter cup of the stuff. My little stash is now nearly gone, so I need to figure out a long term solution. Most likely I'll ask Cummings if I can order the occasional bottle through them. Peter: Excellent question. I could say this is a trade secret, but on the contrary I would prefer that more people had a stash of Orgeat on hand.

One can order Orgeat on the web of course (from Fee Brothers for example http://www.feebrothers.com), but that’s no help if you want a Mai Tai today. One can also make it at home (http://fxcuisine.com/default.asp?Display=26), but … no.

Giant Eagle: nothing. Maybe Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods carry French or Italian syrups, and surely somebody in the Strip District does, but all of those were a bit too far for me this time around.

Fortunately for me, Cummings Candy and Coffee on Main Street in Butler has a whole shelf of Torani syrups, for use in lattes. So I stopped in and asked my dear friend Patty if I could have an ounce or two, and she kindly obliged with a quarter cup of the stuff.

My little stash is now nearly gone, so I need to figure out a long term solution. Most likely I’ll ask Cummings if I can order the occasional bottle through them.

]]> By: peterb http://mybrilliantmistakes.com/2007/05/spirited-cuisine-rum/#comment-392 peterb Thu, 10 May 2007 16:32:58 +0000 http://mybrilliantmistakes.com/?p=498#comment-392 You didn't answer the most important question here: where did you obtain your Orgeat? -p You didn’t answer the most important question here:

where did you obtain your Orgeat?

-p

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