I don't mean to interrupt, CDNSushi, but I'm wondering if there is also a blessing for the grain when it is grown?
Interesting tradition.



Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
... "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Todd (A nosebleed-high Anglo-Catholic)

I don't seem to have it anymore, cajunscot, but back in the early nineties a college history teacher, in an American Revolution course, handed out copies of Benjamin Franklin's rum punch recipe. If I remember it had quite a bit of sugar in it. That quote reminded me of it.