Potterverse characters and tea.

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> > Well, the point of coffee is that it's hot. Cooling it off ruins
the effect, and reheating it, either in a microwave or a coffee maker,
ruins the flavor.
> 
> Ali:
> I would contend that cold-brewed coffee <snip> is FAR superior to
hot coffee and that, therefore, the point of coffee is that it's
delicious, not that it's hot.  Try it. <snip>

Carol again:

I should have said that the point of *hot* coffee (aside from being
delicious) is that it's hot, and milk or half-and-half or ice cream or
anything that takes away the heat spoils the effect, as does letting
it sit and cool to room temperature. And reheating does something to
the coffee that spoils the flavor, making it taste burned or bitter.
Cold coffee is, I suppose, an acquired taste. I might try it some hot
day as an alternative to iced tea or an Arnold Palmer or raspberry
lemonade.
> 
> Carol:
> > However, I'll drink a cappuccino on a hot day. All the sugar and
flavoring (caramel, for example) covers up the sour taste of the
cream, which probably happens with ice cream as well.
> 
> Ali:
> I think that you should just start keeping vanilla simple syrup
around and not mess with ice cream - 

Carol:
I've never heard of vanilla simple syrup.Turns out that simple syrup
is two parts sugar (type unspecified--I assume granulated table
sugar), one part water, boiled and cooled. You just add vanilla (a
teaspoon? I lost the page) to make vanillas simple syrup. It's used in
Margaritas, of all things. Heck, I used to make my own pancake syrup
using brown sugar, water, and vanilla after it cooled. Tasted just as
good if not better than the bottled maple syrup you buy at the grocery
store.

Carol, who thought that vanilla simple syrup must be another British
thing until the first page she Googled turned out to be about Arizona
(and Margaritas, which are everywhere you look in this state)