Something for the holidays

[I have been at a lost to find something to post for the holidays until I ran across this, revolution and excitement sounds like something we can get behind. ;) ]

A RECIPE FOR FLIPPING

In the spirit of the season, we offer the following recipe for a holiday punch of another kind. The story is that the appropriately named "Flip" was a popular revolutionary-era drink, and that, together with coffee, it fueled the excitement --the ferment, you might say-- that became the American Revolution. So for your own edification:

Revolutionary Flip
* An anti-imperial Pint (17.76 oz) of strong, (locally brewed) beer
* 2 tablespoons of (organic) sugar, unrefined
* 1 tablespoon of (fair trade) molasses
* 2 tablespoons of (CSA) dried pumpkin, finely ground
* 1 measure of (locally distilled) rum

Get yourself a large mug and pour the beer in. Mix in the sugar, molasses and dried pumpkin, blend well. Heat up an iron poker (or, if you don't have an iron poker, some other metal utensil (and please watch that you don't burn yourself)) and stick the red hot end into the liquid for a second or two. Add the rum. Now you're ready to get up on a soapbox and shout, "Good riddance to George!"