sâmbătă, 19 mai 2012

Romanian Special


In Romania there a lot of habits, superstitions, myths and legends linked to wine. The explanation is very simple: during more than 2000 years of drinking wine the folklore added a lot of legends to this habit. Please don't think that all the Romanians are addicted drinkers; on the contrary, many of them are very sober, but nevertheless they drink at least one glass wine at every table!

And the benefits of this treatment are scientifically proven: 2 glasses of wine daily make the life longer. And much nicer, I would say!!

If those two glasses are of red wine, that make the men much more stronger during the love nights. It is thought, that the red wine is very useful for the ladies, when drunken by the men! Compare with the effects of the beer, anyone can make the difference.

Aditionally, the almighty orthodox church during all the important services (nuptials, funeral,baptism) uses the wine as an imagine of the God's blood.


And in spring, usually in May, there is a very interesting tradition, VINUL PELIN or in English ABSINTH. Be sure that the translation loses something, but it is very useful for your primary orientation! And in order to understand the loss through translation, I give you a wider explanation ! The drink is based too on absinth (Artemisia absinthium L.) which is told to have miraculous curing strength against bad spirits. It is also very useful for healing liver and stomach diseases, eye diseases etc. But again about absinth: The Romanians don't baptise the absinth with alcohol first, as Pernot does, neither associate it with other plants getting the Vermouth, like the Italians.
 
 Here is the recipe, to be more concrete: take 48 litres medium dried wine (half red, half wine, the wine shouldn't be stronger than 11 degrees!). Add to this wine 1 hand of dried absinth, 1kg of dried apples, 1kg of dried quinces and 1 kg of dried pear and also one hand of flowers from wormseed (Artemisia maritima). Allow this mix to rest for 15 days in a full vessel, and afterwards get out the absinth and the wormseed. Allow than to rest another 2 months and you'll get a very good and fine absinth. Which is nothing else than a flavored sweet sour appetizer which must be drunken with sobriety, as it serves also as an excellent introduction for other more refined wines!

Enjoy your drink!





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