another good book

Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people don't like rum.

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That’s actual rum, like >12 year Demerara.

All reasonable people know not to drink Bacardi. It’s good for deer repellent, I’m told.

Cheers

Phil “Inverroche Verdant gin, please” Hobbs

I do like rum.

I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay. I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)

So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and eaten slowly.

Very Good

Joe

Find a Bananas Foster recipe. It's a classic dinner dessert or brunch treat in New Orleans.

Cooked bananas have a different flavor. The hot banana-cream-cinnamon-rum sauce is the best part.

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I did look at that, and it seemed over the top for SWMBO, but I'll tempt her. Maybe for a party.

Yes.

Joe

Cherries Jubilee, then for something like "Pears Cointreau".

Pie filling and ice cream, ....

Nilla wafer nana pudding?

Never tried Jaeger on ice cream, or, Sambuca or Cumbia, ..., they're good cold, though.

Rum like anything else is for avoiding adulterants.

Sambuca or Cumbia, ..., that's Ouzo for you. (Anisette, "licorice flavor".)

Pretty much every heritage has its own "water of life", which is usually an alcoholic spirit.

Some alcoholics, or "alcoholists", develop "tolerance", others do not. It's often best avoided, or sometimes, voided. (Purgatives.)

There are many, many kinds of tequila. (Most "to kill ya".) Sometimes, "for what ails you". The traditional idea of "the bar" as the five bottles or variously the seven bottles is that there are medicinal uses for alcohol, then that the five bottles are the usual accoutrement to concoct the various sorts of folk remedies, since conditions and reactions to alcohol are wide, varied, and personal.

Here is for usually enough something with quinine and bitters and some aromatic spirits, not overdoing it and where sometimes the "premium" or "best value" is better than the "top shelf".

"The Omnibibulous Mr. Mencken", who was a drunk, is a book.

Turns out that SWMBO had Bananas Foster at a business conference held in a major hotel in New Orleans. She liked it a lot, commenting that it was not too sweet, which she likes. This was well before we met, but we agree on the too-sweet issue.

So we may make it someday. Or just buy it, if someone local is making a not-too-sweet version in the Boston metro area.

Joe

"Too sweet?" What does that mean?

BF starts by carmelizing brown sugar and butter, and that gets dumped onto vanilla ice cream. Some sweetness is unavoidable.

People come with very different calibrations.

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Yes. And younger people like sweeter foods. What changes over time is the desired ratio of sugar (glucose, sucrose, and fructose) to lard or tallow or butter. (Things like Palm Kernel Oil are substitutes for lard and tallow.)

Joe

Please add lactose to the list. Lactose is a disaccharide composed of galactose and glucose. Anything that ends in -ose is likely to be a sugar:

I'm 78 years old. It's quite possible to develop lactose intolerance as we get older:

About one year ago, I began experiencing gas, farting, diarrhea, and pain in the lower intestine area. The symptoms became progressively worse with time and with the amount and frequency of eating food made from ingredients containing milk. After a few weeks of volcanic misery in the bathroom, I isolated the potential culprits to ice cream, cream cheese (on lox and bagel), peanut M&M's, milk chocolate, and possibly Nutella hazelnut spread.

Lactase pills are great with a big bowl of ice cream or cookies and milk.

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Milk and garlic are good sources of glutathiones, which are potent agents helping bodies effect remission of cancerous conditions caused by inflammation and immunoresponse.

I became somewhat lactose intolerant when I was about 30 and lived in Baltimore, and had problems that I eventually traced to the regular milk in my breakfast cereal (Shredded Wheat), when I realized that the problem vanished while I was home in the Boston area for XMAS, and had toast in the morning instead.

I never had problems with ice cream that is in fact made of cream, not milk.

Joe

Joe Gwinn wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] ice cream that is in fact made of cream, not| |milk." | |-----------------------------------------------------|

I believe that cream is made of milk. (S.

You're both wrong:

So it is written. So it must be.

My counterexample is Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Bean Ice Cream.

Joe

Ice Cream and Ice Milk are legally different here.

Ice cream must contain at least 10% dairy milkfat and no more than

Ice Milk can be labeled as "low-fat" or "light" ice cream.

Gelato usually doesn't qualify as ice cream.

I suppose there are frozen things with palm or soybean oil or used motor oil.

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