Pumpkin Juice and Butter Beer

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd"
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
> Iggy here... re-sending this one since it looks like Yahoomort
decided to
> devour it the first time...
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> 
> > Arya
> >     Anyone got a recipe for Pumpkin juice?
> >
> 
> Yeah... Squeeze a pumpkin REALLY hard.  *yeesh*
> 
> Iggy McSnurd

bboy_mn:

Well, you really could 'juice' a pumpkin, but fresh pumpkins are hard
to come by any time other than Holloween. And pumpkin is not exactly
the juiciest fruit around, so a lot of pumpkin equal not much juice. 

I've eaten raw pumpkin flesh and I like the way it taste, so running
that flesh through a juicer, adding a dash of sugar, and perhaps some
pumpkin spice might actually produce something very drinkable.

Others have suggested adding Pumpkin Spice/Pumpkin Pie Spice to your
favorite juice (apple was suggested). 

Another alternative would be to take a juice base of your liking
(again, suggesting apple) and blend it with some canned pumpkin pie
mix; essentially making a pumpkin pie smoothie. 

As far as Butter Beer, nothing you can create is ever going to taste
as good as the enraptured discriptions in the book make is sound. In
general, most things butterscotch flavored are not going to taste that
great. But here are some suggestions.

-(Vanilla) Cream Soda with butterscotch ice cream topping added. Note:
you can also get concentrated butterscotch flavoring in the baking
section of your grocery story. The concentrated flavoring would be a
little less messy as the butterscotch ice cream flavoring requires a
lot of syrup and a lot of stirring to get it mixed into the cream
soda, and all that stirring makes the cream soda foam all over the
place. A few drops of liquid concentrated flavoring might be simpler.

Root beer would seem a logical mix, and there are several butterscotch
flavored root beer recipies out there, but I don't think you will be
too satisfied with the results. 

-Here is my latest idea, but first I digress; during the Thanksgiving
and Christmas holiday, my mother makes her special spicy apple cider.
She takes a big electric party coffee percolator and fills it with
apple juice, then she fills the part where the coffee grounds usually
go with a spicy cinnimon candy called 'Red Hots'. Then she plugs it
in, and lets it percolate, thereby melting all the Red Hot candies
into the apple juice. Makes great hot apple cider, always spiced just
right.

So, why not do that with butterscotch. Take apple juice and instead of
using 'Red Hots' as described above, use your favorite butterscotch or
butterrum hard candy. Once the juice and the candy have been disolved
together, I have to beleive you will have a great tasting hot holiday
drink.

By the way, did you know that Acid Pops are a real candy, as are sugar
mice.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn