Love the letters!!!! How about SASSAFRAS for tea? My dad would stop the car, jump out and go down the ditch and up to the fence row and dig some sassafras roots. Dried, it made wonderful tea. As I recall it tasted like rootbeer. Jean in Michigan, USA

There are still people in America who make their own rootbeer from Sassafras.  Some years ago a friend was doing this using old wine bottles.  He did have the odd bottle explode now and then.  My understanding is that modern "Rootbeer" was made to reflect that Sassafras taste. I like to add a touch of non-dairy creamer to my rootbeer, but you have to be careful.  Adding a non-dairy powder to rootbeer causes all the gas to be released and you will have rootbeer EVERYWHERE!  But if done slowly and carefully, it makes the rootbeer taste like an ice-cream float.  You just don't want to have to slurp it up from the counter.     Lou ________________________________ From: jean waterloo <waterloj@massnet1.net> To: Pat Cook <paver207@yahoo.co.uk>; eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:54 PM Subject: [LIN] Sass Love the letters!!!!  How about SASSAFRAS for tea?  My dad would stop the car, jump out and go down the ditch and up to the fence row and dig some sassafras roots.  Dried, it made wonderful tea.  As I recall it tasted like rootbeer.  Jean in Michigan, USA ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message