{"id":235,"date":"2004-05-09T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T00:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2006-11-01T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T13:03:06","slug":"illicit-substance-caffeinated-scots-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/09\/illicit-substance-caffeinated-scots-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"illicit substance: Caffeinated Scots Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.oclc.org\/NET\/scruss\/scots_tablet\">Scots Tablet<\/a>; in fact, I&#8217;m almost famous for it. I also roast my own coffee, which I get from <a href=\"http:\/\/merchantsofgreencoffee.com\/\">Merchants of Green Coffee<\/a>. What harm could come from combining the two, I thought?<\/p>\n<p>Plenty, is the answer. By adding \u00c2\u00bc cup (measured before grinding) of finely-ground coffee beans to a half batch of tablet has resulted in almost black tarry lumps that combined sugar, butterfat and caffeine into a mallet-to-the-back-of-the-head rush.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I might use just a smidge less coffee. At the moment, it&#8217;s like a cross between full-on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.germandeli.com\/radhopcofcan.html\">Rademaker&#8217;s Haagsche Hopjes<\/a> and Uncle Ump&#8217;s Umpty Candy. I suspect that the RCMP will come knocking soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make Scots Tablet; in fact, I&#8217;m almost famous for it. I also roast my own coffee, which I get from Merchants of Green Coffee. What harm could come from combining the two, I thought? Plenty, is the answer. By adding \u00c2\u00bc cup (measured before grinding) of finely-ground coffee beans to a half batch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1151,1498],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-coffee","tag-tablet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}