[Sca-cooks] Sekanjabin Origins\
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Thu Nov 18 12:56:16 PST 2004
> I've seen the word "jalab" used, by modern Middle Eastern grocers, to
> a particular drink syrup flavored with rosewater, but it's quite
> possible that it has or had a broader meaning of "drink syrup" in
> general.
Culpeper refers to jalaps or jalabs as a sort of drink made with
flavored syrup and water. So Sekanjabin would be a sort of jalab, but
jalabs wouldn't necessarily be sekanjabins or oxymels.
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