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Went to a friends house because I don't have an oven right now. It was nice and the Tequila was great.
Hope everyone else had as much fun. |
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The oven quit, or is this from some kitchen work you're doing? |
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You Gotta be kidding/
Meet the real, hard core boozers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectified_spirit This is even a piker. Ours was 192 proof Polska. My sons better half's family are original Polish from the old country. Thanks giving day Papa poured his concoction, flavored spirits into a very small shot glass - liberally to everyone repeatedly !!! Upon my second it really knocked my socks off before eating. |
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My ex wife's grandfather was an old school moonshiner who passed down a test for how much "kick" a batch had. Set a spoonful of the shine on fire. If it has a small, blue flame and stays lighted all the way to the floor when tipped out of the spoon that's some good stuff. I tried that once with some moonshine a friend brought back from Oklahoma, set my thumb on fire. No one told me I was supposed to do the test BEFORE sampling the stuff, didn't occur to me that I had sloshed some on myself. I bet a guy could set his house on fire doing that kind of thing. The extended family did Thanksgiving a couple weeks early due to various timing conflicts on the actual day, just the two of us and one of the young grand kids on Thanksgiving. So, I brined a 6 lbs chicken and roasted it on a beer can and made minimal fixings. Still a big plate full of chicken (could have just done a three pounder), but used up the last of the mashed potatoes this morning. Might make some rice and gravy to go along with the chicken tonight, and freeze or make a stew out of whatever leftovers there are tomorrow.
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I have a friend from Romania, and he says everyone in Eastern Europe makes their own alcohol. he says they usually use plums. He says they take the plums and squish them in a large container, they might add some water and sugar and let it ferment for a week or so and then they boil it in a closed container. The lid has to have a pipe in it to channel the steam. The steam is mostly alcohol. The alcohol steam rises first and collects in the cooling pipe, turns into a liquid and then falls out of the cooling pipe when it turns into a liquid.
It's kind of like a science experiment with a happy ending. |
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I have been painting my house which is all wood and 100 years old. It is a lot of work, especially the windows and screens. I'm 90% done, but I started in August, so you see, I'm not that fast of a worker. |
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