Farm Booster

Extra Booster

When you down and troubled and you need some loving care

Take a Guinness Booster, all you need is

1guinness

1fresh uncooked egg

1 cup of fresh cow’s milk

½ once nutmeg

Splash of Almond essence

Method :Crack egg in a mixing blender Jar and blend for one minute, then add the other listed ingredients and continue the blending for another minute, then add a quarter jar of crushed ice. Blend for another minute. Then serve in a Glass.(2 persons)

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Macho Mango Wine

Mango season is here

All types of mangoes, starch, Doo-douse, Julie, calabash, 

cutlass, long ,  You name it , We have it in Trinidad & Tobago

The mango is a juicy stone fruit  consisting of numerous tropical fruiting trees, cultivated mostly for edible fruit. The mango is native to South and Asia, or from where it has been distributed worldwide to become one of the most cultivated fruits in the tropics. The centre of diversity  is in India. It is the national fruit of India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, and the national tree of Bangladesh. It has been introduced in the Caribbean by indentured labourers

Make Mango wine

                                             Just get

                                                                                                                                         

 3-4 lbs fresh mango  2 1/2 lbs finely granulated sugar 
7 1/4 pts water 
1 1/2 tsp acid blend 
1/2 tsp pectic enzyme 
1 tsp yeast nutrient 
1/4 tsp tannin 
Wine yeast

Method: 

Bring water to a rolling boil,

·         Peel mangoes and remove the flesh from the see

·       Slice and dice the flesh. Pour diced flesh in nylon straining bag, tie bag and put in bucket,

·       pour in the water, mash the flesh with your hands or a sterilised potato masher.

·       . Add acid blend, tannin and yeast nutrient. 

·       Cover and allow to cool to room temperature.

·       Add pectic enzyme, cover bucket and set aside for 12 hours. 

·       Add yeast and recover the primary.

·        Squeeze bag two to three times daily for ten days.

·       Drip drain bag, squeeze gently to extract extra juice and discard pulp .

·       Allow wine to settle overnight, and then strain into fermenting vessel.

·        Top up and fit airlock.

·       Stabilise by placing in a cool place where it will not be disturbed.

·         Strain again after 30 days and again every two months for six months.

·         Stabilise, sweeten to taste, wait ten days, and strain into bottles.

 Age this wine a year before drinking.

 Serve chilled or over ice.


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Wine from the fence

Sipping smooth taste of Hibiscus wine

Before the invention of wire and concrete fences , the hibiscus branches were planted into the ground on the land boundary or roadside. The shoots from these branches were trimmed into the shape of a wall. This did not only gave the appearance of a green wall it did in fact formed a barrier because of the close growth of branches. The hibiscus wall also bears flowers, the flowers can be collected and made into wine

Hibiscus Flower Wine 

It’s easy to make

Get the Ingredients it’s all local
1-2 oz dried hibiscus flowers 
2 1/2 lbs sugar 
7 pt water 
1 1/2 tsp acid blend 
1 tsp yeast nutrient 
1 pkg yeast 

Method: 
-Boil the water and sugar, stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved.

·        Place hibiscus flowers into a cotton cloth tied over a container, with the centre of the cloth over the centre of the container in a basin shape.

·        Pour boiling sugar water over flowers add the acid blend  and stir in all ingredients except the yeast.

·        Cover until water cools to room temperature.

·        Squeeze flowers to extract maximum flavour and then discard flowers .

·        Add activated yeast, and stir.

·        Strain into fermenting vessel, top up with water and fit airlock.

·        Stabilise by placing in a cool place where it will not be disturbed.

·        Ferment 30 days then strain into clean fermenting vessel, Refit airlock

·        Strain again after additional 30 days.

·        Fill into clean sterilize bottle.

Serve with ice

Have you ever tasted it, taste it you might like it 


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Pommecythere wine

A Rural Christmas Gift

Great tasting wines

Taste the Pommecythere

In the rural areas fruits are in abundance, the population is united in agricultural pursuits.

In the festive time they display their skills to create Wines at cheap prices.

Pommecythere Wine a favorite
Easy to Make

Just take

3-4 lbs ripened Pommecythere 

2 1/2 lbs finely granulated sugar 

7 1/4 pts water 

1 1/2 tsp acid blend 

1 tsp yeast nutrient 

Method: 
Peel the pommecythere, cut the flesh away from the seeds, and slice and dice the flesh
Mash the flesh with your hands or a potato masher. Dissolve sugar in boiling water and pour over mashed fruit. Add acid blend, and yeast nutrient. Cover and allow to cool to room temperature.

 strain into fermenting vessel.

 Stabilise by placing in a cool place where it will not be disturbed

Strain  again after 30 days and again every two months for six months Stabilise, sweeten to taste,

 wait ten days, and  into bottles. 

Then add  ice and drink

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Punch Time

Rum Punch

Whenever the time is right

 for a cool drink with a little Zip

Either alone or with friends

The time is right for a RUM PUNCH

A simple Concoction

I cup fresh lime Juice

2 Cups simple syrup

1 cup Puncheon Rum

2 Cups Orange Juice

2 Cups Grapefruit Juice
4 dash of Angostura Bitters

Sprinkle of Freshly grated nutmeg

Method

Place into a jug all the listed ingredients in any order, turn with a long spoon to ensure proper mixing, Served chilled or with crush ice

Tropical Lollies

The August holidays are Here

The hustle and bustle to satisfy the kids are common 

Cold drinks and ice licks are always choices to cool down the pace

Fruit lollies with a kick is a lick of choice. It is a combination of pieces of fruit and white or red wine and water.

Non alcoholic version, omit wine and replace with orange or pineapple juice.

See Karis Layne on the drinks tube below for Recipe

At your next outing/party make some to take along.  Replace fruits with tropical fruits golden apples, papaya (paw paw), guava etc. for tropical flavours.

Share with me your tropical lollies concoctions

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BABASH

Babash is a traditional rum which has its genesis in the Sugar Cane Industry. After its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492, people from all over world were bought to Trinidad to cultivate sugar cane. Various sugar factorys were established to process the sugar cane into sugar. One of the by product of this industry was molasses. It was discovered that molasses could be used to manufacture alcohol . This was first manufactured by the Indians indentured and descendants of African slaves in backyard makeshift stills. This was their main source of alcohol and used on almost all social gatherings from funerals to weddings.  The name given to the product  is Ba Bash, Mountain Dew, or Bush Rum. It is illegal to manufacture or Drink this product, persons found drinking or manufacturing this drink can be charged up to Five thousand dollars. Despite it being outlawed it continues to be manufactured by locals and used by the rural poor and the rich enthusiast. It is well know by the Trinidad Population and idolized in song.

 

BUSH RUM STILL

Molasses was also used by the Sugar factories, with Caroni Ltd being the last to close down in 2003 to manufacture rum, this rum however remained legal in Trinidad and Tobago and sold to local and external markets. Angostura limited a local manufacturer first developed its rum from the sugar cane molasses , today it is a World Class Company.

SUGAR CANE FACTORY

The criminalization of alcohol production by the rural poor appears to me to facilitate the sales and profits of the more affluent in society ,the manufactures and elites. It was a method of creating a monopoly on alcohol  products. This led to the development of the refined alcohol industry, with expert marketing, packaging and various blends accompanied by large profit margins . On the other hand the rural poor manufacturers remain outlaws, taking chances to produce, no opportunity for development, cannot invest in machinery or equipment and produce at the very primary level. Had they be given the opportunity to develop as those given to the elite manufacturers , today we would be enjoying a variety of magnificent endemic brands of Ba bash . This is a direct impact of Colonization. 

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