Five foods that Brody uses to make moonshine (1/2)
1. Peaches
On Icarus there was not a lot to do with down time. The soldiers had a half hearted touch football league, but only the youngest most athletic of the scientists participated. The people into fiber arts had organized a weekly Stitch and Bitch and there were on again off again chess/go/whatever you could get people interested in tournaments. The SGC sent huge amounts of recorded material, but really watching a six week old football match was not all that exciting.
So when Brody overheard the mess staff complaining because somebody had misplaced a decimal and they now had 160 crates of canned peaches on their hands instead of the sixteen that had been ordered, he took half a dozen off their hands more by way of a means to amuse himself than anything else.
His peach schnapps was an immediate hit and, if he did say so himself, a huge morale boost. At least until Colonel Telford found out about it three weeks later and shut him down.
At least it was Colonel Young who took charge of the confiscated liquor. (“There's a still on the base? I'm shocked, shocked, to hear that. When you break down the still, please return my spare canteen, Mr. Brody.”) When Telford rotated back to Earth for briefing, Young doled out the last of the booze at the base's monthly birthday party.
2. Purple Sweet Potatoes – of course
After a couple of hours on evenings the still was open and pouring, intense debates erupted over whether the liquor distilled from the purple sweet potatoes was vodka. Some of the European crew members generally held that to be vodka it had to come from real potatoes, whereas the other side figured that if it tasted like vodka, it was vodka.
3. Funky Grain
Grain was not something they often found on the planets where they resupplied. The prevailing theory was that what they thought of as grain had been cultivated for so long that it was a wholly different plant than the primitive forms that grew wild. So when on one of their stops they did find a grass that had kernels resembling wheat there was much rejoicing.
Until they tried to bake it.
“It just won't rise. Near as I can tell it's got no gluten at all.” Becker complained. “And when I try to make flat bread it turns rubbery. Best I can do is porridge.”
Since nobody was excited about yet more porridge there was no objection when Brody took a bunch to distill.
It came out... well, interesting. He pressed Dr. Rush into taste testing. Rush choked on his first swallow and pronounced that, “It's no' whiskey” But finished off his sample and showed up for more that night when Brody unveiled his new product to the crew.
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Date: 2012-01-30 06:31 am (UTC)1. Peaches
On Icarus there was not a lot to do with down time. The soldiers had a half hearted touch football league, but only the youngest most athletic of the scientists participated. The people into fiber arts had organized a weekly Stitch and Bitch and there were on again off again chess/go/whatever you could get people interested in tournaments. The SGC sent huge amounts of recorded material, but really watching a six week old football match was not all that exciting.
So when Brody overheard the mess staff complaining because somebody had misplaced a decimal and they now had 160 crates of canned peaches on their hands instead of the sixteen that had been ordered, he took half a dozen off their hands more by way of a means to amuse himself than anything else.
His peach schnapps was an immediate hit and, if he did say so himself, a huge morale boost. At least until Colonel Telford found out about it three weeks later and shut him down.
At least it was Colonel Young who took charge of the confiscated liquor. (“There's a still on the base? I'm shocked, shocked, to hear that. When you break down the still, please return my spare canteen, Mr. Brody.”) When Telford rotated back to Earth for briefing, Young doled out the last of the booze at the base's monthly birthday party.
2. Purple Sweet Potatoes – of course
After a couple of hours on evenings the still was open and pouring, intense debates erupted over whether the liquor distilled from the purple sweet potatoes was vodka. Some of the European crew members generally held that to be vodka it had to come from real potatoes, whereas the other side figured that if it tasted like vodka, it was vodka.
3. Funky Grain
Grain was not something they often found on the planets where they resupplied. The prevailing theory was that what they thought of as grain had been cultivated for so long that it was a wholly different plant than the primitive forms that grew wild. So when on one of their stops they did find a grass that had kernels resembling wheat there was much rejoicing.
Until they tried to bake it.
“It just won't rise. Near as I can tell it's got no gluten at all.” Becker complained. “And when I try to make flat bread it turns rubbery. Best I can do is porridge.”
Since nobody was excited about yet more porridge there was no objection when Brody took a bunch to distill.
It came out... well, interesting. He pressed Dr. Rush into taste testing. Rush choked on his first swallow and pronounced that, “It's no' whiskey” But finished off his sample and showed up for more that night when Brody unveiled his new product to the crew.