[Sca-cooks] Grenade syrup or molasses

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Ana Valdes wrote:
> The Armenians here are from Turkey and they don't have groceries, weird :(

That's odd.

The Turks make and use pomegranate "molasses". The word for pomegranate in Turkish is "nar", which is the same in Persian. The Ottoman Turks borrowed a lot of Persian and Arabic words. There was a Turkish language purge in the early 20th c. to get rid of all Persian and Arabic words, but many still remain in the language. Pomegranate molasses in Turkish is nar ekshisi (the "sh" is actually an s with a cedilla, but that won't show in e-mail), in Persian it's rab e-nar.

Urtatim (that's oor-tah-TEEM)