It wasn’t really beer, but some nice hot toast made from the loaf of beer bread I made yesterday. And very nice it was too. I used a bottle of Robin’s Tui East Indian Pale Ale beer, flour, baking powder and a little salt, mixed it all around, put the mixture in a loaf tin and baked it for an hour. The fizzy beer made the dough rise well, and the loaf turned out well cooked, with a nice crusty top. It couldn’t have been more simple – in fact, so simple, even a husband could make it.
Robin’s favourite beer - Tui
After dinner we decided it was finally time to face the “weasel” coffee from Vietnam and give it a try. Weasel coffee is quite highly prized over there. Robin’s sister Kaye has been living and working in Vietnam for the last year or two, and brought a packet of this delicacy back for Robin when she had a fleeting visit home recently.
Weasel coffee from Vietnam
Coffee beans are fed to weasels, or in the case of Vietnam which has no native weasels, civet cats. The coffee beans pass through the animals gut and is excreted, gathered up, washed (we hope), roasted, ground, packaged, and bought by eager customers. We brewed a cup each using the dinky little Vietnamese coffee filter.
Filtering our weasel coffee
So what did we think of coffee made from beans going in one end of a civet and pooped out the other? Actually, not too bad at all. We added cream and a little sugar, and it was certainly tasty enough, just like brewed coffee anywhere. We just won’t reflect on the journey those coffee beans have taken.
2 comments:
You used a bottle of Robin's favourite beer to make bread! Are you still married?????
Yes but Jenny had to plead on bended knee to gain approval.
Robin
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