NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/food/drink/3852

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Subject: Interesting  Peruvian drink
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:24:38 GMT

On a recent trip to Anaheim, CA some of the folks in our lab stopped
at a Peruvian seafood place that had just opened for dinner.  We
were served the 'house drink' that the waitress (all staff appeared
to be family members recently arrived from Peru) called 'chicha'.  I
did  not get the spelling of it but she attempted to describe it to
us.  She said it began by boiling corn meal then filtering... the
resulting liquid was then boiled with citrus (oranges, ?lemons? etc)
and filtered... the resulting liquid was boiled with cloves and mint
(or did she say mince as one person thought he heard?)... and again
filtered.  The finished product was served over ice.  The drink is
a deep reddish purple, quite fruity and refreshing with, as you
might imagine, a quite unusual taste.


Now the question:  I got what seemed to me, rather scant information
to try and reproduce this interesting Peruvian drink.  Does anyone
know the proper preparation, spelling, history of this drink?


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Thanks,

Terry