[Sca-cooks] Grenade syrup or molasses

[Ana Valdés]

I am going to have a visit from Yerevan in some months, I am going to ask
her to bring some bottle to compre! :)
Ana


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:54 PM, <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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)
>
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