National Scotch Day

July 27, 2013 at 7:43 AM | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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Five Food Finds about Scotch

1. Single Malt Scotch Whisky is made from 100% malted barley and distilled at a single distillery.
2. Blended Scotch Whisky is made by blending together a number of single malts and grain whiskies.
3. 90% of all Scotch whisky sold in the market comprises of Blended Scotch Whisky.
4. The whisky in ‘Scotch Whisky’ is always spelt without an ‘e’.
5. In Britain, the term ‘whisky’ is taken to mean Scotch whisky only, unless it has been specified otherwise.

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1880 A.P. Abourne patented a method for refining coconut oil.

1910 Large hailstones fall in Todd and Wadena counties in Minnesota, some weighing as much as 5 pounds.

1931 A swarm of grasshoppers destroyed thousands of acres of crops in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The corn fields were totally destroyed, without a stalk left standing.

1931 Auguste-Henri Forel was born. The next…

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