[Sca-cooks] Sekunjabin question

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I recently made my first batch of sekanjabin (about 3 quarts of syrup
for an event), and i have a few comments:

I really really did NOT like the taste of cider vinegar in it. Next
time i will use white wine vinegar. Apples are not particularly
common in the Near East, but grapes are, and there were plenty of
Muslims drinking wine throughout the Near East. I suspect Near
Eastern vinegar was not cider vinegar, but grape based vinegar.

I used His Grace, Lord Cariadoc's proportions, and then reduced the
amount of sugar and increased the amount of mint and vinegar, and it
was still waaaay too sweet for my taste. And, yes, i diluted it,
extremely, before drinking it (like, a tsp or two of syrup to 8 oz.
water). I'll probably also add verjus, as some i've found is rather
drinkable to my taste, or Middle Eastern sour grape juice.

Anahita
who is just soooo sweet she doesn't need sugar...
yeah... right...