[Sca-cooks] Brighid's pomegranate drink recipe

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 13 Oct 2003, at 20:13, Elizabeth A Heckert wrote:

>   If Brighid ni Chiarain (apologies if I botched the spelling) is still
> on the list, could I bother you for the recipe for the lovely pomegranate
> drink that you had at the redacting party (a year or more ago) at
> Mistresses Anarra and Ana's house?

No problem.  It was an approximation of the pomegranate syrup in the 
Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook.  That calls for pomegranate juice to be 
cooked down with sugar into a syrup, which is presumably later diluted into a 
drink.

Since pomegranate juice is expensive around here (and is not always 
available), I used pomegranate syrup (aka pomegranate molasses) and a 
sugar syrup.

The "recipe":

Buy some pomegranate syrup (I used Cortas brand)

Make a simple syrup of 2 parts sugar to one part water.

Mix 6 tablespoons of pomegranate syrup with 1 cup of simple syrup, and add 
enough water to bring the total to 2 quarts.  Stir well.  Taste and adjust as 
necessary.

I served this at a feast and a dayboard, and it was very popular, though it 
surprised a few gentles who mistook it for iced tea.  It seems to occupy the 
same flavor niche as lemonade -- a sweet/tart fruit drink.

 
Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net