Apple Pie

Sylvrfalcn

Sylvrfalcn

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Not what you might be thinking, I'm talking about a drink that'll help chase the chill off.

- In a saucepot, gently heat a quart of apple juice (simmer, do not allow to boil)
- Once the apple juice is fairly heated, stir in two big tablespoons of honey
- Add a good size pinch of "Apple Pie Spice" (it's in your grocer's spice aisle, and clearly marked Apple Pie Spice, believe it or not)
- "Season" with Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum, Vodka, et cetera, stir well and serve

Yummm yum, tastes just like hot apple pie, but kicks like a mule. Just be careful about drinking it right before bedtime, you're liable to feel so warm you'll kick off all your quilts. ;)

Sarge
 
Well, I feel honor bound to respond to any thread about apple pie, which I love almost as much as peanut butter or ice cream, even if it turned out to be a beverage.

I would know little of drinks like this, as adding unneccesary sugars to my alcohol consumption would have been contraindicated back in those days when I did consume.

But for all you right minded forumites, it sounds pretty darn swell.



munk



munk
 
Sounds really good Sarge, too bad I have to limit my intake anymore.:(

On a different subject but still really good although non-alcoholic is one dish I had while in the hospital. CocaCola Jello. Barbie's made me a couple of batches since I've been home, good stuff. I'll have to write out the recipe.;)
 
Dadgone, Sarge. The good Lord giveth and He taketh away. I have a PERFECT snow day tomorrow. Driveway is snow smashed into ice with a thick coat of frozen rain under that. The road is just steep enough that my horrible rear wheel dr chevy will skid and slide and make a lot of fuss going nowhere. PERFECT day for a hot apple pie. Got the rum, got the spice (and i thought that fancy spice rack mom0in-law got us a waste of space;)), don't have any apple juice:( How do you think that little drink would taste with the wife's diet citrus V8 splash?:D Hmmmm, I'll have to poke around a little bit in the cabinets tomorrow. What a great sounding drink. Thanks:)!
Oh, and Yvsa is right. Coke jello is really good:) The Mrs. made it one time for the daycare she used to work at in college. Strange, but very good. I'll see if she still knows how to make it.

Jake
 
Jake,

You are a lucky man. We got just enough snow here in Louisville to make the roads dangerous.
 
Only a two hour delay to report here...wonder how many "slices" of apple pie I could get by with before reporting?
 
I don't envy you gents up there freezing your tails off. We had freezing temps yesterday morning (31 deg), but then it warmed up to ~50 degrees by 11 am. Today started off warmer, but is supposed to get to a low of 28 by tonight. Brrr... Thats about as much of that as I can take. We may get 1" or less of snow once or twice this year. Usually doesn't even stay on the ground at all. Makes the drivers dumb as sheyatt though.
 
45-70 said:
Jake,

You are a lucky man. We got just enough snow here in Louisville to make the roads dangerous.
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That's what my mother-in-law said. Luckily her car is all wheel dr, and if things get really bad Dad-in-law has a 4X4 F250. It's really not that bad here, but the schools are cancelled. The roads are probably passable, but I live just far enough north past the "money" that my subdivision won't get scraped unless i get some of my company's machinery to clear it off. No big deal. It'll start melting tomorrow. The wife is sick, so i have an excuse to stay home and baby her.
Take care over there. I KNOW how Louisville drivers are...especially when the least little bit of snow makes them lose their minds;)

Jake
 
For those of you that don't imbibe, but relish the smell, try this.

Get the following:
chopped citrus peels, (orange, lemon, etc.)
cinamon sticks
cloves
Mulling spices and/or apple pie spice, etc.

Put it all in a pot of water and let it simmer. It fills the house with a great smell.

I woke up this morning to the wonderful smell of baking cookies. I had left my pot of water and spices on the woodstove all night and all the water boiled away. I caught it before it started burning though.
 
I don't leave anything on the stoves anymore. I forget. I need teapots that whistle, too. Last Christmas I got a new one but everybody wanted to touch it and they kept dropping it. It took a lot of falls, and almost a year, but it lost the handle and whistle.

I'm going to get one that's built like a tank. I don't leave pots of water on the wood burning stove because I got small kids. But it's a great idea. I've heard differing accounts about whether the steam released is the proper type of moisture in the air, believe it or not.

I've always liked walking into houses in Winter that are scented with apple and spice.


munk
 
I have a cast-iron Japanese tetsubin teapot. It is flat and stable, and elegant. Suitable for my own idiosyncratic explorations of cha dao (the path of tea) and jio dao (the path of wine). The cast iron retains heat to keep the wine or tea hot. It has an enamel interior and I'm not sure if you're supposed to put it on the wood stove but I do. The enamel hasn't cracked yet, and if it does, it does.

I use a whistling teapot in the kitchen, but not on the woodstove. My kids are older now, but even when they were small I cooked and kept water on the woodstove. They learnt that the stove was hot and potentially painful, and never had any serious accidents with it.

I have cast iron teacups too. It's hard to be macho when you're drinking tea out of a dainty cup. Now pour almost boiling tea into a cast iron cup and then pick it up, that's macho! Then you drink it slowly and gracefully.
 
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