If you want to have some real fun at the next potluck dinner make some chicken salad canapes. Make the chicken salad very fine almost like a pate'. Then add just a touch of a high quality cream sherry to the mix. They will have no idea where the fantastic taste came from and you will say it is a secret family recipe that you are not at liberty to disclose

Well that sounds about as dishonest as missionaries leaving out the secret ingredient in the church......the fact that it's demonstrably false.

I would not knowingly add something (alcohol) and serve it to others, fully knowing they wouldn't eat it if they knew it was in there because it violates their faith.

Wouldn't be a good reflection on the perpetrator if it was found out either.

Nothing to do with mormons, just respect for others and being honest.

Maybe its me, but I just don't get the "lets pull tricks on the mormons" type of thinking.

Me neither, I don't think its respectful and I don't think it's

funny.

From someone with Liver issues, I'm sorry, it's not only not funny it can be actually harmful. If I consume any alcohol at all my monthly liver tests show elevated liver enzymes indicating damage being done.



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Exactly.... it could be a really serious medical issue just

because some knuckle dragging cretin wants to have a private

joke.

Potluck dinners resemble pigs a feeding time. Everyone

races to get the best dish, and the most. It looks like

feeding time at the farm as they all gather around the

trough.

At a reception McKay attended, the hostess served rum cake. “All the guests hesitated, watching to see what McKay would do. He smacked his lips and began to eat.” When one guest expostulated, “‘But President McKay, don’t you know that is rum cake?’ McKay smiled and reminded the guest that the Word of Wisdom forbade drinking alcohol, not eating it.”

Excerpt from a book by Greg Prince, David O McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism.

If someone wanted to make a fuss (and Mormons love making fusses) they could have you charged with assault. It's illegal to feed someone a drug (and alcohol could be considered a drug) without their knowledge and consent.

Actually, one could make some super punch. Don't put any alcohol in it - but say it is in it. See who will sip it. I suppose one could put in a single drop just to be telling the truth. Many years ago (I hate to say how many) when I had promised the mishies I would not drink alcohol, etc., and I was at a political event, someone spiked my drink. I knew it. I did sip a little, pretending I did not know...
PS. I won the election.



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The no alcohol rule is why NyQuil cannot sell a single bottle of their wonderful elixir in the entire state of Utah.

Would I lie?

I did not know that but brought the last dregs of NyQuil with me to assure sleep with the timezone changes!

I think the last think you'd want to do is trick someone into consuming alcohol. Kids could have it; recovering alcoholics which no one knows about could have it. Overall, bad form in my book.

Just wait a little longer. Many of those people may leave on their own and drink when they're ready and informed.

Many, many people use that special juice in their cooking.

As for me -- I slip a good shot of vodka into our families Thanksgiving Day cranberry sauce. I'm always complemented and asked how to make it by the unsuspecting TBMs in the group.

I give the list to them -- without mentioning the vodka. Bet they wonder just why it doesn't have the same zing when they make it. It's because I and French chefs know what we are doing -- and not constrained by stupid religious restrictions.

even as an active Mormon DW uses sherry and red and white wine in cooking. we have done so our entire married lives, but she won't add coffee to recipes that call for it. she subs with Pero.

if alcohol was good enough for joe smith it's good enough for me.

"I remember my church picnic, it was the spring of '89.
We had 4 fresh watermelons, sliced right off the vine.
When they bowed their heads, giving grace for the food,
I pulled out my bottle, and soaked them melons good.

They never knew what hit 'em, when the potion went to work.
They had grandmas doing backflips, grandpas looking up their skirts.

They were singing Hallelujah, and Willie Nelson songs.
Preacher said it was the best dang picnic that the Baptist had ever thrown."

Roger Creager - The Everclear Song

Yeah, I wouldn't do this. Whenever I make a potluck dish, I always try to disclose what's in it. Invariably someone is vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, has a nut allergy, can't eat onions or something. Alcohol is definitely something that should be disclosed.

That being said, I am sure discovering that you can impress people by cooking with wine. I did a dinner (for non-mormons) a couple weeks ago where I tried a tarragon chicken in Chardonnay cream sauce. It was absolutely to die for. One guy told me he'd help me clean up so he could lick the pan. Man, I've really been missing out.

I'll have to remember Pres. McKay's statement "the WoW says you can't drink wine, doesn't say you can't eat it."



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My goodness did I ever stir shit with this one.

The Walton's TV program had an episode where one of the children is trying to follow grandma's cake recipe and just cannot get it to taste like grandma's. Finally grandma has to confess that she puts a little of The Recipe into it.

I guess in today's world grandma would be hauled off to the hoosegow!

The thing I've done before is have chocolate cake with a little bit of coffee in it, and TBM's loved it. It was just a small amount, to the point where you couldn't taste the coffee, and I admit I didn't tell them. There was no alcohol at all in that cake, but if I were to make something with that as an ingredient, especially if I was sure it didn't cook out, I'd disclose that.

My TBM ex-husband would probably agree with McKay as he wasn't that fanatic when it came to avoiding alcohol when it was in food. He knew my dad's famous chocolate mousse had a little bit of brandy added during the cooking process, and he still enjoyed it.

I've seen TBMs go gaga over tiramisu that I know not only had coffee and/or espresso powder in it but a little Tia Maria also. But I have to admit, it was to die for.

I have a Texas sheet cake recipe that has coffee. My TBM sister and her family love it. I didnt mention the coffee for a long time. When they asked for the recipe, I had to confess. They still eat it. Alcohol untless it is cooked is different as it can harm people.

I shared this wonderful Jello recipe before.Start with a aluminum disposable pan,Make a package of strawberry jello slice up hotdogs they look like bananas in jello.Add garlic, rice crispies and anything else you would like.Cover with lots of whip cream. Now this is very important write the name of someone you dislike on a piece of tape on bottom of the pan.People will want to see who made such a wonderful treat.

my grandma makes a fantastic rum sauce for her pie. Once made it for a reunion and didn't tell my crazy mormon great aunt what was in it. My Aunt ate about half the pie herself. Some of the best bbq sauce I ever had at a cook out was made with either makers mark or highwest rendezvous whiskey. My ex made it and then told everyone after the fact. Some people were made most of them just shrugged and said it was the best bbq sauce they had in thier life.



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So the hash brownies are out of bounds for the potluck I assume

probably not a good thing..

That's like making a large quantity of home made root beer in your bathtub because your don't have a large enough pot .

that would clear the building!!

According to some Mormons, don't call it food porn. One TBM posted this on Facebook.

http://fightthenewdrug.org/why-hashtag-foodporn-needs-to-stop/

Desertman, I think your idea would be hilarious in a slapstick comedy movie... in real life it stinks, kinda like a real-life "Weekend at Bernies" would suck most horrendously. In the last 15 years or so, I have developed some weird allergies(for want of a better term)or intolerance to certain foods and things. If you snuck some alcohol in something I was drinking, I would get very, very sick. And then I'd come looking for you so I could urrp all over you.



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