[Sca-cooks] Sekanjabin Origins now vinegar

[The Borg]

I don't suppose  you know of a period cookbook with an actual recipe for
vinegar? I'm still having trouble documenting it.

Elewyiss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Friedman" <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Sekanjabin Origins


> 1. The Fihrist of al-Nadim isn't a cookbook. It's something between
> an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia--a list of every book
> al-Nadim has read, with brief comments, arranged by subject. The
> English translation runs to two volumes. It mentions sekanjabin but
> does not, I think, give a recipe.
>
> 2. There is a recipe for sekanjabin in the 13th c. Andalusian
> cookbook that Charles Perry translated and I published as part of
> Volume II of my cookbook collection. The translation is webbed at:
>
>
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian_contents.htm
>
> The sekanjabin recipe is in the chapter on drinks near the end.
>
> It is for "simple sekanjabin" and uses sugar or honey and vinegar and
> no additional flavoring.
>