RE: Trinidad homemade drink

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the link to the Maubi tree bark drink recipe.

 

The people at the Roti (Trinidadian) restaurant make their own and said

they use ANY kind of bark. Either they meant exactly what they said or

were trying to keep their recipe secret (which is silly because the

process and the other ingredients are not at all obvious).

 

I have had sorrel (dark red, sweet and fruity) and sea moss (creamy).

One Jamaican place near here puts the sea moss in all of their

smoothies.

 

I love living in the tropics (way down south in Florida).

 

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[Guest guest]

Maida,

 

I think the people at the Trinidad restaurant were " yanking your chain " . I

grrew up in the Midwest and now live in Alaska. You said that the drink tasted

like root beer. There are only 2 trees or shrubs in those areas that would be

suitable for root beer that I know of - sassafras and sarsparilla and maybe a

hint of an evergreen but surely you could not use any tree to come up with a

taste so distinctive. It wouldn't work for birch, maple, elm, cottonwood, etc.

Maybe trees in Fla. are different but you could definitely not use any tree.

 

GB

 

RE: Trinidad homemade drink

 

Thanks for the link to the Maubi tree bark drink recipe.

 

The people at the Roti (Trinidadian) restaurant make their own and said

they use ANY kind of bark. Either they meant exactly what they said or

were trying to keep their recipe secret (which is silly because the

process and the other ingredients are not at all obvious).

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

From what I read Maubi is not at all what one might expect of sarsparilla or

sassafras. It

uses the bark of the maubi (sometimes mauby or maubey) tree (whatever THAT is!

LOL),

but it's true flavour comes from what's added to it - ginger and various other

spices - and

it's kick, either slight or not so slight, from the yeast which is added.

 

I ran across several website, but this one will do:

 

http://www.islands.vi/~cdavis/recipe.html

 

Best, Pat

 

> I think the people at the Trinidad restaurant were " yanking your chain " . I

grrew up in

the Midwest and now live in Alaska. You said that the drink tasted like root

beer. There

are only 2 trees or shrubs in those areas that would be suitable for root beer

that I know

of - sassafras and sarsparilla and maybe a hint of an evergreen but surely you

could not

use any tree to come up with a taste so distinctive. It wouldn't work for

birch, maple, elm,

cottonwood, etc. Maybe trees in Fla. are different but you could definitely not

use any

tree.