Comments | ideserveyou: Sweet...

ideserveyou

Sweet...

Jan 26, 2011 21:28

Take rainwater kept for several years,

( Can you tell what it is yet? )

ireland, mead, recipe, toast, history, romans, vocabulary, research, drinking

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freddiejoey January 26 2011, 22:27:24 UTC

This is as beautiful as your fic.

I love all the different sorts of mead and the lovely scene with that extraordinary drinking horn under that huge tree.

Now I can go through the day feeling all warm and fuzzy - and thinking of other occasions when that special mead might make an apperance in the longhouse...

By the way, what do we call you now : Captain ideserveyou or Chieftain ideserveyou or just Mam

ideserveyou January 26 2011, 22:52:50 UTC

Thank you - couldn't think what on earth to write about tonight (brain-dead after sticking figures in spreadsheets all day) and 'mead' was the first word that popped into my head!

It was indeed an extraordinary scene on an extraordinary day and sometimes I still wonder whether I dreamed the whole thing...

No need to stand on ceremony, I don't intend to let the power go to my head!

freddiejoey January 26 2011, 23:07:13 UTC

You did very well for a brain dead person. Want to send some brain power this way with trepkos and she can post it from Sri Lanka?

ideserveyou January 27 2011, 08:37:18 UTC

I think it will blow away on the wind before it reaches you, there's so little of it to start with!

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h_e_l_e_na January 27 2011, 14:39:56 UTC

Ideserveyou's, neat! Looks like a good and quite special recipe, thanks. Freddiejoey, all the best to your brain!

ideserveyou January 27 2011, 17:41:16 UTC

I'm not sure about 'rainwater kept for several years' - I should have thought it would turn green and stagnant. Maybe the Romans had nice sealed storage jars or something.

They relied on the wild yeast in the honey (and maybe whatever was growing in that rainwater) to make the sugar ferment. These days it's more controlled, and special cultivated yeasts are used instead.

freddiejoey January 27 2011, 22:14:12 UTC

Brain says thanks. It is doing its best (I remain supremely unconvinced)

h_e_l_e_na January 28 2011, 06:01:29 UTC

Ideserveyou, maybe it's like... adding to the flavour? With the, ugh, mould. But maybe they really sealed their storage jars well. I hope. Freddiejoey, oh, he (or she? sometimes I wonder what gender our brains prefer to be) will convince you... eventually. Right?