Note from Anna:
I am sorry that these are so slow in coming to online. That is mostly my fault!
Esther writes:
Firstly I want to say sorry Mormor! I have been remiss. This little blurb has to be brief though, for two reasons, its getting close to bed time, and my battery is about to run out.
When we arrived at training here we received a cook book that had a recipe for mango wine. I wasn't that interested because it seemed like too much work. We tried it during training and lets just say it was not the finest wine the world has seen. I howeverm mentioned it to a friend here at school and he was very interested. I therefore went about looking for ways of making decent local alcohol. Long story short, we have brewed a sweet ginger wine and a more potent spiced mead. Mead, if anyone is wondering (yes, i know technically what we made has its own specific name because of the spices...stop nit picking) mead is an alcoholic beverage brewed with honey. I got the honey from a man in the village who has his own bee hives and when I told him what we were doing he asked for a taste. I said I'd trade honey for mead. so, as promised we took our finished product to his
little shop to present, but he was not there. His wife was, so we offered it up to her and said it was our wine for her husband.Thanks were exchanged and we were off. seconds later she called back my friend and asked, " so, this is to drink" " yes, it's like beer". A moment, then, " can you taste it?" so we opened the bottle and drank a small portion. when she saw that we had not dropped dead she let us on our way. Apperantly, when you give a food gift to someone that you don't know that well (this doesn't count for friends) you take it, open it and eat it to show that you are not using witch craft to kill/injure the recipient. Ya learn something new every day.
ES
Firstly I want to say sorry Mormor! I have been remiss. This little blurb has to be brief though, for two reasons, its getting close to bed time, and my battery is about to run out.
When we arrived at training here we received a cook book that had a recipe for mango wine. I wasn't that interested because it seemed like too much work. We tried it during training and lets just say it was not the finest wine the world has seen. I howeverm mentioned it to a friend here at school and he was very interested. I therefore went about looking for ways of making decent local alcohol. Long story short, we have brewed a sweet ginger wine and a more potent spiced mead. Mead, if anyone is wondering (yes, i know technically what we made has its own specific name because of the spices...stop nit picking) mead is an alcoholic beverage brewed with honey. I got the honey from a man in the village who has his own bee hives and when I told him what we were doing he asked for a taste. I said I'd trade honey for mead. so, as promised we took our finished product to his
little shop to present, but he was not there. His wife was, so we offered it up to her and said it was our wine for her husband.Thanks were exchanged and we were off. seconds later she called back my friend and asked, " so, this is to drink" " yes, it's like beer". A moment, then, " can you taste it?" so we opened the bottle and drank a small portion. when she saw that we had not dropped dead she let us on our way. Apperantly, when you give a food gift to someone that you don't know that well (this doesn't count for friends) you take it, open it and eat it to show that you are not using witch craft to kill/injure the recipient. Ya learn something new every day.
ES
