Many of my maternal grandmother's family lived in Canada. Once a year, one of her sister's would come visit and bring memere a six pack of "bierre dipinette" I'm sure I'm slaughtering the spelling. In English, she called it spruce beer, althought it wasn't a beer, it was a soft drink. Memere would let me have one bottle, because she knew I loved it as much as she did. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Don't know what made me think about this - it just popped into my head. |
love old memories hope someone can help
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found a recipe for 18th Century version of Spruce beer: http://beerrecipes.blogspot.com/2007...ruce-beer.html
and a facebook page for it: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Biere-...e/179283110022 last bit - from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce_beer In the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland, where it is known in French as bière d'épinette, spruce beer may refer to either an artificially flavored non-alcoholic carbonated soft drink, or to genuine spruce beer |
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Wow - this takes me back! We used to be able to buy spruce beer (really a soft drink like root beer) at the corner shops but not any more. I think some people probably still make it for their own use but it isn't made for the public consumption anymore.
I would imagine your grandmother was French-Canadian if she was called "memere". Here she'd probably be "nan". ;-) |
yes, she was French-Canadian. Growing up (in New England) I spoke as much French as I did English. Even went to an elementary school where French taught from Kindergarten on. Unfortunately, I don't remember much - you don't use it, you lose it.
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hubby is from PA/NY border area--old familiar drink for him was "birch beer"--again, similar to root beer, but different in flavor. a nephew once brought a case of it to him, and he was in 7th heaven!
fun memories! |
Originally Posted by svenskaflicka1
hubby is from PA/NY border area--old familiar drink for him was "birch beer"--again, similar to root beer, but different in flavor. a nephew once brought a case of it to him, and he was in 7th heaven!
fun memories! |
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