[Sca-cooks] Sekajabin & other Syrups

[Aurore]

What is Tamarindo?  I've seen a Flavor-Aid that is that flavor.  Just
couldn't figure out what the flavor is suppose to be.  Aurore

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Fox-Davis" <selene at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Sekajabin & other Syrups


> May their enterprise bloom!  They could do well by pitching the
> Hibiscus syrup to the US-Latino and Mexican markets,
> where they call it "Jamaica" and drink it by the buckefull.
> Tamarindo too, come to think of it.  Yum.
>
> Selene Colfox
>
> Christine Seelye-King wrote:
>
> > I went to a reception on Friday for a group of women farmers from
Senegal.
> > They have formed a farming cooperative and have been touring the South
to
> > see cooperative farms, the Tuskeegee Institute, etc.  They came through
> > Atlanta for this reception to meet the folks that had sponsored them.
They
> > brought their cheif product which they are hoping to import, "Bissap
Sirop"
> > or Syrup of Hibiscus flowers.  It is a ruby red color, and gets diluted
with
> > water for a drink that is used as a tonic, lower blood pressure, etc.
It is
> > absolutely wonderful, having the flavor of Red Zinger tea in a sweetened
> > form.
>
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