[Sca-cooks] Brighid's pomegranate drink recipe

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

Thanks, Brighid. I was about to ask you for this...

> 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
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