Butterbeer

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28179

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tracey" <tracey_vampyre at y...> wrote:
>
> BUTTERBEER
> Butterbeer is just the following recipe, When I lived in Ohio
> we made it all the time. I the recipe veries at times some 
> people add butterscotch. It's not bad with chocolate sryup.
> 
> INGREDIENCE:
> ROOT BEER
> BUTTER
> CREAM

That may be an American sort of butterbeer (one that as a Delawarean
I've never encountered), but it seems unlikely to me that a British
butterbeer would be based on root beer.  Root beer is a very un-
European beverage, whose flavor evokes "cough syrup" or "medicine"
to the palates of most Europeans I know who've sampled it.  Perhaps
it's different in England, but I'm very skeptic.

Indeed any approximation involving a *microwave* (as this recipe does)
should be seen as a silly American imitation--possibly downed while
playing Quodpot or somesuch.... ;^)

....Craig, who suspects that Jo would be amused at such a knockoff