Hot Drinks

[gypsy1]

On 9 Apr 1997, Sue Wensel wrote:
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> > How about hot granatus, or hot lemonade (great when you have a cold!),
> > or some of the other sugar-syrup drinks that are so copiously documented
> > in medieval Arabic sources?  Most of them are good both hot and cold.
> > 
> > 					mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
> >  
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Please sir, What is granatus?
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> But will *kids* drink them??  I myself an quite partial to hot mint sekanjabin
> as well as many hot herbal teas, but I find that children are resistant to
> trying anything not familiar (and why they drink that bright blue stuff is
> beyond me).
> 
> Derdriu
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Because it grosses us adults out -- have you ever tasted it???
Rita
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