[Sca-cooks] Saba

[Patricia Dunham]

Sabra, definitely Israeli, chocolate and orange liqueur.  I had a 
bottle once for curiosity value, MANY years ago.

chimene

>Sabra is a brand (I think Israeli?); if you go to the WineChateau 
>site you'll see chocolate and coffee liqueurs.
>
>Saba is the same thing as Sapa, which is a modern (probably very 
>old) descendant of Roman wine reductions and/or wine made from 
>semi-dried, grape concentrate, like defrutum, etc.
>
>Basically a thick. sweet, grape syrup...
>
>Adamantius (who still has an old bottle of Sapa from Sahadi's in Brooklyn)