Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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(I know, my mother used to make it, floating yeast on toast in a
covered crock etc ! ),,
,, later it can be a nice white wine !

Coo! That's how I was taught to make it by our housekeeper back in
the
days when it was a clandestine activity. [...]

What _was_ the point of the toast-floating method? It always struck
me as absurd.

Interesting, Corncrake: individual taste, I suppose. Certainly I
always used whitecurrants ripe.

--
Mike.
--
Mike.