[HPFGU-OTChatter] remember when this was a FOOD list?

[John Walton]

catlady_de_los_angeles wrote:

> Help me to think of wonderful things that are tan-colored, such as
> Caillard & Bowser's butterscotch hard candy... and chewy cubes of
> caramel... Is there an exotic French name for a delicious caramel
> sauce that color? A liquor that color? What color do people think a
> cafe au lait mousse would be?

Well, if you very carefully caramelised the top of a crème brulée, that
would be tan. Also if you made onion soup where the onions were very lightly
caramelised before adding the stock (and use vegetable stock as it's less
brown than beef). Coffee-flavoured anything would be light brown -- perhaps
try a mocha mousse? Or, something I fell in love with recently, a coffee and
white chocolate mousse. Really scrummy.

As for tan alcohol, there's always bourbon and (Scotch) whiskey, Amaretto,
cognac, armagnac, creme de cacao, Kahlua (coffee-flavored), Sheridan's (if
you mix it :D). Cream sherry is also pale brown.

HTH!

--John

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