[Sca-cooks] Lemonade in medieval Egypt

[Adele de Maisieres]

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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