[Sca-cooks] Sekanjabin Origins

[David Friedman]

Except that the chapter doesn't identify the other drinks as 
"sekanjabin." And many of the drinks don't have vinegar, and so are 
not oxymels either. I think an old discussion on this list concluded 
that "jalab" was the proper generic term for such drinnks, but I'm 
not sure.

>There's a whole darned chapter of the Anon. Andalusian with some 
>very odd flavorings for sekanjabin or oxymel (like carrot), so it's 
>not really an SCAism, although specific occurences might be.
>I can't, personally, imagine wanting to put any of the varieties in 
>milk <<huge shudder>>, or use as a dip--wrong flavors!
>--maire, who's sometimes thought of doing a whole bunch of different 
>flavors for an A&S entry....
>
>lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
>
>>
>>Part Two
>>
>>Someone answered the above message by saying:
>>
>>>  A slight correction - Sekanjabin does not mean Mint.  It means a
>>>  sugar/vinegar syrup. It may be flavored with mint, or cardamom, or ginger,
>>>  or strawberry, or anything else.  It is sometimes mixed with 
>>>water to drink,
>>>  sometimes milk, and sometimes left alone as a salad dip/dressing.
>>>  I got my recipes from doing a search on the word sekanjabin on Google.
>>>  After seeing that all the recipes were variations fo the same technique, I
>>>  branched out on my own.  I have no idea where you'd get a copy of an
>>>  original recipe.  Ask Cariadoc is all I can think of.
>>
>>
>>To the best of my knowledge, the basic sweet (originally honey) and 
>>vinegar mixture used diluted with water as a beverage is called 
>>oxymel (from the Greek for vinegar and honey) and was known to the 
>>ancient Greeks and Romans (who also called it oxymel since they 
>>used a lot of Greek food terms).
>>
>>  From what i can tell, many, if not most, of other flavored recipes 
>>are SCAisms. While sekanjabin is a kind of oxymel, not all oxymels 
>>are sekanjabin.
>>
>>And, uh, i've never heard of mixing an oxymel with milk - i'd think 
>>that would curdle the milk. Or am i wrong?
>
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