Someone bought us all a bottle of Jack Daniel's Apple 🍎 for Christmas.
It came in it's tin. My first thought was how much did the tin cost? I am sure will find an home in a shed or the polytunnel for nuts and bolts or staples or even vegetable seeds?
I tried to make hot toddies with the spirit and placed a teas spoon of sugar, a good measure of the drink and some hot water 💧 in the whisky glasses with the handles.
The resulting taste was far too sweet!
It's OK 👍 on it's own. But don't add sugar.
Since reading the writing on the tin box it says it's a liqueur.
I went over to Wikipedia and found out what is a liqueur. It's a spirit with fruit additives.
Anyone else sampled any hot toddies or liqueurs lately? What's your favourite?
What about making some mulled wine or cider? Hey we could have a cider night. I must find some cheap cider?
Did I tell you when we went to Glastonbury music festival in 1989 and it was roasting hot and we bought gallons of Scrumpy for five pounds a gallon. In one of those plastic containers they sell paraffin in and with big chunks of wood floating in the cider?
I became very sick and vomited into our campfire. So I didn't make a mess. Ever the consciencous type even when severely inebriated.
Apparently I was christened "the barking vomiting dog of the north" by some young ladies. One of the West countries girls kissed me and said: "Dave's alright". He's lovely". I was going to buy her a badger pasty but I was too ill.😊 A true story.
Ewww...too much information, Dave!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a very hot today JayCee. I laugh now when I think about. Especially when I had an enormous hangover next morning and walked to the beer tent and ordered a pint of strong cider at nine o'clock in the morning. Talk about hair of the dog🐈😊. It did the trick.
ReplyDeleteScrumpy is lethal, we drank it as teenagers, but had loads of lemonade with it. I don't drink spirits, just red wine or a cold cider shandy in the summer.
ReplyDeleteYes Scrumpy is very strong Marlene. Especially on a red hot summers day and you are dehydrated and have ate very little. I love Sangria Especially in Portugal 🇵🇹. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSounds revolting. You can liqueurs and I'll lick mine.
ReplyDeleteVery good Tasker👍. Did you ever make snake bites in your student days? Apples 🍎 🍎 have a way of repeating. Been there, got the T shirt.😃.
ReplyDeleteOne time camping in Oz, we thought it would be a good idea to freeze a box of wine, that way it would stay cold for a while. I woke up in the morning half in and half out of the tent. it hadn’t occurred to me that if we drunk the cold wine leaving behind the ice in the wine bladder we would be leaving behind all the water and drinking all the alcohol. Luckily Australian campsites we spacious and there were no tents near by.
ReplyDeleteI love music and camping anecdotes Traveller. Blogs and comments don't express the emotions you go through in these situations. Roll on summer.👍
ReplyDeleteI make mulled wine and give it away at Xmas. I also make red wine liqueur. Red wine is still cheap. I used to make vodka based liqueur, a really easy coffee one. I don't waste vodka anymore!!
ReplyDeleteAll good to drink!
Cider here comes in small bottles and is a rather sweet version. Not like yours
We pay over 3 Euros tax on a bottle of wine. 55 Cents on a pint of beer and 11.92 on a bottle of whiskey in Ireland Linda. Cider is supposed to be very easy to make because the apples 🍎 have their own natural yeasts. Your homemade mulled wine would be great Christmas presents. I wish I could make my own beer. We have tried before but never liked the finished result. Although they were better than some commercial craft beers we have bought.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful tale :)
ReplyDeleteMulled cider is a favourite of mine, especially enjoyed beside a warming fire - indoors or out, either is fine. Although, preferably without anyone vomiting on it!
I have lots of rock festival anecdotes Jules. Have you been to the 200000 strong canvas city? That's not including the other 200000 who gate crash. It was incredibly hot like Cropredy in 2022. I was given a nice bottle of wine for Christmas. I must mull over how to make some mulled wine?🤔 Mulled wine spices are on the Lidl shopping list.
ReplyDeleteA cider night is a great idea. There'd be "JayCee Cider" - rich and fruity. Then "Yorkshire Pudding Cider" - subtle but strong, and of course "NorthCIDER" - guaranteed to blow your top off.
ReplyDeleteThis time next year we will be Millionaires YP.
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I am a cider drinker
I drink it all of the day
I am a cider drinker
It soothes all me troubles away.
Eat your heart out William Wordsworth!...
DeleteNow dear old Mabel when she's able
We takes a stroll down Lovers Lane
And we'll sinks a pint o' Scrumpy
Then we'll play old nature's game
But we end up in the duckpond
When the pub decides to close
With me britches full o' tadpoles
And the newts between me toes
The Wurzels at their finest. I would love to have seen them play live. I love the West country.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Oh my gosh. What a tale! You probably brought out all their nurturing instincts...they wanted to take care of you!
ReplyDeleteIt was Debby. Back in my twenties when I could go to Glastonbury festival for four days. All for 28 Pounds. These days tickets cost hundreds and they sell out online in twenty minutes and nobody knows who would be playing. The world's gone mad. My friends thought my predicament was hilarious and the young ladies took pity on me. It's always funny when it's not you. That's humour isn't it? Someone else's downfall🙄.
ReplyDeleteMy son went to most of early Glastonbury festivals, before it became expensive, we lived in somerset at the time, so quite close.
ReplyDeleteI rember camping ,in the early 50's. We used to camp in the New forest. No campsites then, jsut a licence needed to camp wild. the forester used to check on us each day, to make sure rules were followed. all cooking was done on the campfire. Ther was a period when there were a lot of dock strikes, so you could go into Southampton dock and buy the rapidly spoiling food stuff of the boats. We bought 28lbs of grapes for a shilling the lot (5p) We sat round the campfire and oreoared the grapes and made wine and jam , (on the camfire) the smole helped to keep the wasps away.
The wine turned out very well after it matured ,
You said you liked camping anecdotes.
Kathy
Wonderful camping anecdoteKathy . We once went to the New Forest and met a herd of free range pigs walking down the road. Amazingly they just ignored us and carried on down the road. We went to a campsite and it was booked solid. Life sounds so much pleasant and less complicated in the fifties Kathy. I believe the first Glastonbury music festival around 1970 was one pound admission and they gave you a free pint of milk. Happy day. Thanks Kathy.
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