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Subject: Re: What makes a Julep?
From: IffyB
Posted: Fri Jan 27. 2006, 06:59 UTC
Followup to: "What makes a Julep?"  by Thinking Bartender  (Tue Jan 24. 2006, 10:47 UTC)
It's interesting that people talk about Julep, everyone focuses immediately on 
the mint as being the essential property - whereas the word on the street is 
that the original meaning of Julep is something like "syrup," from the Persian 
word "gulab" which apparently means rose water. I should ask my dad about 
that. Gary Regan claims that the English used julep to mean simple syrup as 
far back as the 13th century. I wonder if "gomme" has a similar etymology. 
Mirriam-webster doesn't even seem to have an entry for it.

julep">http://m-w.com/dictionary/julep

http://www.indiaforvisitors.com/food/desserts/gulabjamun.htm

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-If


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