[Sca-cooks] Lemonade in medieval Egypt
Adele de Maisieres
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Tue Jun 27 17:01:29 PDT 2006
Sydney Walker Freedman wrote:
>This sounds a lot like the Syrup of Lemon from the thirteenth-century
>anonymous Andalusian cookbook in Cariadoc's Miscellany.
>
>
From memory, al-Andalusi says that to make lemon syrup, you should boil
equal quantities (by volume) of lemon juice and sugar until they become
a syrup. He also gives a number of other recipes for drink syrups.
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Adele de Maisieres
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