[Sca-cooks] Sekanjabin Origins\

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> 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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