[Sca-cooks] jalab recipe to redact - A Syrup of Honey

[Stefan li Rous]

Another beverage recipe from Master Cariadoc in my jalabs-msg file for 
the list to redact:

A Syrup of Honey

Take a quarter ûqiya each of cinnamon, flower of cloves and ginger, 
mastic,
nutmeg, Chinese cinnamon, Sindi laurel, Indian lavender, Roman 
spikenard,
elder twigs, elder seeds, oil of nutmeg, bitter and sweet nuts, large 
and
small cardamom, wild spikenard, galingale, aloe stems, saffron, and 
sedge.
Pound all this coarsely, tie it in a cloth, and put it in the kettle 
with
fifteen ratls of water and five of honey, cleaned of its foam. Cook all
this until it is at the point of drinking. Drink an ûqiya and a half, 
and
up to two, with hot water. Its benefit is for weak livers; it fortifies 
the
stomach and benefits dropsy among other ailments; it dissolves phlegm 
from
all parts of the body and heats it a great deal, gives gaiety, lightens 
the
body, and it was used by the ancients like wine for weariness.

Is "Sindi laurel" different from other laurel? Where would you get it? 
What about "Indian" lavender? What is "sedge"? What "bitter and sweet 
nuts" would you use? What exactly are "aloe stems"? Is this the stem 
from aloe verde? (sp?) the plant used for treatment of burns? Looks 
like a yucca but with very fleshy leaves? They don't have much stem, 
sprouting into the leaves pretty close to the surface of the ground.

Stefan
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    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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