RECIPE: REC: Austrian Cucumber Tea Punch for Marianne

RECIPE:
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richard-in-cincy

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1 pot brewed Black Tea

10 ml cucumber wine vinegar

sugar to taste

"Brew the tea, stir in the cucumber vinegar and sugar to taste. This tea punch adjusts the harmony of the body and leads to a feeling of wellness. And it's not just for Christmas time."

from "Kulinarische Erlebnisse der sauren Art" (Culinary Adventures of the Sour Kind)

Notes: While the tea is quite good hot, it's hot outside and I wanted a cold drink so after sampling it hot, I iced it and floated a cucumber slice on the top. This makes a very refreshing and wonderful iced tea. I will be drinking many glasses of this!

 
Oh, the Cucumber Vinegar!

I recently received my first bottle of cucumber wine vinegar and it is truly a revelation. The above tea recipe was the first thing I used it for.

Last night I steamed some beautiful fat asaparagus spears leaving them crisp tender, shocked them in ice water, drained, drizzled them with a wonderful fruity dark green olive oil, a minced clove of garlic, freshly ground Sarawak black pepper, and the cucumber vinegar, tossed, sprinkled with large flake French fleur de sel, and let them marinate.

Wow! I could have a made an entire meal out of that asparagus.

The cucumber vinegar is so refreshing, very refined and elegant, with a delightful aroma of cucumber. You can order these amazing new vinegars out of europe (basil, tomato, herb, spice, blueberry, pilsner, etc. etc.) at a great cost. They are made from wine made of the fruit named on the label of the vinegar. They are not "flavored" vinegars.

Or you can order the cucumber vinegar (the one I'm using) from a US winery that has begun to make vinegars using the Austrian process: perdidovineyards.com

 
Missy, this is one of DH's gourmet vinegars, made from Alabama-grown

fruits and vegetables. Cucumbers were fermented into cucumber wine, then re-fermented into cucumber wine vinegar. This one won a gold medal and 2nd overall at Europe's largest vinegar competition in Austria in 2004. The process and equipment is Austrian. (Hence the connection to Richard)

DH also uses the same technology to produce wine vinegars from White Muscadine grapes (bronze medal winner), Apples, Blueberries, Sugarcane, and Malt(gold medal winner) vinegars.

The vinegars are not listed on his web-site yet, (www.perdidovineyards.com), but if you click on "Contact Us", he'll get word, and tell you all about them. They are 375ml bottles that retail for $5.00 each, plus shipping.

Oh dear, I hope this does not violate Mimi's User Agreement!

 
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