Name: Tamarind Syrup (Sharab tamerhindi)
Yield: This recipe makes about 6 one litre (1¾ pt) bottles. Each bottle makes about 15 servings.
Cuisine: Palestinian
Ingredients: 4 ltrs (7 pt) of water; 2 tbs freshly squeezed lemon juice; 3 kg (6 lb 8 oz) sugar; 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) package of tamarind

Preparation info

This recipe makes about 6 one litre 1¾ pt ) bottles. Each bottle makes about
15
servings.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Palestinian Cuisine

By Christiane Dabdoub Nasser

Published 2000

About

When I was a little child, during the long hot summer afternoons, my mother used to call on friends of hers, originally Jerusalemites who had moved to Bethlehem after the Nakba, the displacement following the 1948 war. Tradition requires that we address close friends of one’s parents as aunt and uncle, the same as with family. Tante Yvonne and Tante Virginie