Scottish Country Dance of the Day

A 32 bar reel with minty-fresh setting and swirling is bound to please. The most recognizable of flavours and scents, minty treats are often flavoured with crème de menthe, a bright green mint liqueur derived from the tiny Corsican mint plant. So distinctive is this liqueur, it figures in literature, music, and history! Agatha Christie's fastidious Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, who favours liqueurs in general, has a particular fondness for crème de menthe in particular. The composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, although otherwise a teetotaler, found that a glass of crème de menthe steadied his nerves when playing his own technically demanding piano score - the twenty-fourth variation of his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" and nicknamed it the "Crème de Menthe Variation." Used in cocktails and many desserts, mint pairs naturally with chocolate and appears in favourite candies such as: Kendal Mint Cake, Andes Mints, Junior Mints, York Peppermint Patties, and After Eight Mint Chocolate Thins. Kendal Mint Cake candy was even carried by Sir Edmund Hillary to mount Everest in 1953 and by Sir Ernest Shackleton on his Antarctic expedition of 1914-17! Delicious! 💚 💚 💚 🥮 🍃