SC - Oxymel, anyone?

[david friedman]

Take a look at the chapter of drinks (including sekanjabin) in the 
13th c. Andalusian cookbook, webbed on my site.

There's also a reference to sekanjabin in the Fihrist of al-Nadim. I 
think the translation may even refer to oxymel.

At 9:55 AM +0200 1/31/01, Jessica Tiffin wrote:
>Greetings, the list.
>
>I'm trying to put together an article about sekanjabin and other
>oxymels, i.e. sugar/honey and vinegar syrups used as medicinal
>drinks.  I have a lot of mentions in Hippocrates, two recipes from an
>Anglo-Saxon leechbook, Cariadoc's sekanjabin recipes, and a
>Florilegium reference to Platina (haven't dug out the Platina
>reference yet).  Has anyone come across any other recipes in any
>medieval or Renaissance source at all for a syrup/vinegar drink, not
>necessarily called oxymel?  I'm particularly interested in herbal
>infusions of oxymel, like the mint one in Cariadoc's miscellany.
>
>(I'll web the article when it's finished and post the URL, if anyone
>else is interested in these references)
>
>Many thanks,
>JdH
>
>
>Lady Jehanne de Huguenin  *  Chronicler, Shire of Adamastor, Cape Town
>(Jessica Tiffin, University of Cape Town)
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