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From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Homemade Irish Cream (Atholl Brose)
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 17:09:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 17:09:30 1984
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Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
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All right, here is my contribution to the Irish Cream foofaraw.

My opinion is that all soi-disant 'Irish Creams' are debased versions
of the pure quill:  Atholl Brose.

Atholl Brose is a traditional Scots drink made from cream, oats and Scotch.
The ninth Duke of Atholl is said to have beaten the enemy in a battle by
covertly filling their well with Atholl Brose and then attacking while 
they were too drunk to fight.

It is a traditional part of the Hogmany celebration.  A loving cup is
filled with Atholl Brose and passed around.  You stand up to drink
it, and the two people to either side stand up too, so you don't 
fall down.  Then you pass it to the person to one side, and help
hold HIM (or HER) up while he (or she) drinks.  

I first tasted it Sunday morning at an SCA tourney.  Saturday had been a 
long day of fighting and drinking, followed by a long night of singing and
drinking and... Ahem!

Mistress Trude Lacklandia, the SCA's first woman knight, was circulating
around the camp with a large pot of an unlikely looking concoction as
I sat quietly moaning to myself.  She insisted some would be good for me
and sure enough, it not only tasted good, it helped ease the throbbing.
Best 'hair of the dog' ever.

What's that you say?  How is it made?  Ah yes, I was coming to that.

			ATHOLL BROSE

(Incidentally, 'brose' is a kind of porridge.  'pease brose' is
pea porridge, etc.  Yecch)

Take a jar and do thereto oats and water and steep overnight.
About a cup of oats to a quart of water will do.  Strain the oats out
unless you're the type who wears kilts properly.  Reserve the
spent oats for another use.  (I don't know what, but waste not, want not, eh?)
Take the oat water, about a quart, and mix with a quart of GOOD whisky
(NOT whiskey for Ghods sake!) and a quart of cream.  Now add
honey to taste -- I like about 2/3 cup honey for this much Atholl Brose.
Mix it until it be enough done and serve it forth.
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Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
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