Mauby

Mauby Fizzz

Mauby is an endemic in the Caribbean refreshing drink made from bark extract of Colubrina elliptica or Colubrina arborescens , native to the Caribbean buckthorn plants .

Manufacturing

Colubrina elliptica and Colubrina arborescens are often called "Carob" in the English-speaking southern Caribbean, which is the English word for the carob tree and is accordingly factually incorrect. The “Mauby tree” is often used to simplify matters. In the manual production of Mauby, the pieces of bark are cooked together with cinnamon, sugar and anise. After cooling, the brew is filtered and, depending on taste, diluted with water, added with sugar and possibly seasoned with Angostura bitters. Other ingredients such as B. cloves, nutmeg or peel of citrus fruits are used to taste. The taste of the finished drink is initially sweet and remotely malt beer-like, but has a slightly bitter note in the finish. Mauby is drunk as cold as possible. Sometimes the brew is fermented with the help of leftovers from the last manufacturing process .

In some Caribbean countries, Mauby is also produced and sold industrially, often as a syrup to which water has to be added. Sometimes the drink is also carbonated. Well-known brands of ready-made drinks are:

• Dominican Republic: Mabi Seybano, Mabi Cacheo (made by Grupo Taino).
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Hairoun Mauby (manufactured by Chatoyer Int.).
• Trinidad and Tobago: Mauby Fizzz (manufactured by PepsiCo ).

application areas

Manually made Mauby is not only drunk for refreshment, but is also used as a home medicine against various ailments, such as arthritis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar and diarrhea. The antihypertensive effect has been proven. Popularly, Mauby is said to have a preventive effect against cancer ; There is no evidence for this.

Naming according to origin

As is usual in the Caribbean, names vary from island to island. Below is a list of spellings, states and areas assigned.

designation	country
Mauby	Anguilla Barbados Bermuda Grenada Guyana St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago
Maubi	Saba St. Eustatius St. Maarten Virgin Islands
Mabi	Dominican Republic Haiti
Mavi	Puerto Rico

Web links

• Illustrated recipe from the award-winning “Caribbean Pot” blog

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ramin Ganeshram: Sweet Hands. Island Cooking from Trinidad & Tobago . Hippocrene Books, New York 2012, ISBN 0-7818-1125-2 , pp. 243 .
2. ^ The Multi-Cultural Cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago. Naparima Girls' High School Cookbook . 2nd Edition. Naparima Girls' High School, San Fernando 2002, ISBN 976-8173-65-3 , pp. 227 .
3. ↑ Dave DeWitt, Mary Jane Wilson: Callaloo, Calypso & Carnival . The Crossing Press, 1993, p. 40.
4. ↑ Cynthia Nelson: Tastes Like Home. My Caribbean Cookbook . Ian Randle Publishers, 2011, p. 7.
5. ↑ Slakethirst.com: Mmmm… Mauby! Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
6. ^ T. Alleyne, S. Roache, C. Thomas, A. Shirley: The control of hypertension by use of coconut water and mauby: two tropical food drinks . In: West Indian Medical Journal . 54, No. 1, January 2005, ISSN  0043-3144 .
7. ↑ Linda Bladholm: Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified . Renaissance Books, Los Angeles 2001, ISBN 1-58063-212-2 , pp. 201 .