[Sca-cooks] "Middle eastern" drinks for pregnant people

lilinah at earthlink.net lilinah at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 17 16:20:27 PST 2011


Ilsebet wrote:
>Sekanjabin is one of a class of drinks called Jalabs.

Actually it isn't.

Jalab or julab is derived from the Persian gul = flower, usually rose 
+ ab = water. Within SCA period jalab is a sharab/sherbet made of 
rose water cooked to a syrup with sugar and water. Other rose syrups 
are made using fresh roses, and some using dried roses, but neither 
kind is jalab, because jalab, meaning rosewater, is made with 
rosewater.

Even today in the Middle East, particularly Lebanon and Syria, jalab 
(sometimes Romanized as jullab) is most often made with artificially 
dyed red rose flavored syrup, generally mixed with water and date 
syrup (dibs or dibis) served over ice with pine nuts.

Sekanjubin is an oxymel and not a julab because it contains no rose water.

Sekanjubin appears as a medicinal syrup; in at least two SCA period 
Medical Formularies, sekanjubin, made of vinegar, sugar, and water 
(no mint... no period recipes so far using mint), is recommended as a 
cure for baldness, to be rubbed on the pate.

-- 
Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
the persona formerly known as Anahita



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