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Trinidad Mauby (recipe)

16 February 2007 6,253 views 17 Comments

Trinidad Mauby

Apologies for the fuzzy photo :) This recipe made 3 rum bottles worth of mauby. They were done within 24 hours!

TRINIDAD MAUBY

INGREDIENTS

12 cups water
4 pieces mauby bark (you can add a few more if desired)
1 small sprig aniseed
1 piece cinnamon
3 cups sugar (or to taste)
1 – 3 tablespoons Angostura bitters (to taste)

METHOD

1. Place all ingredients (except bitters) and 4 cups water into a saucepan and boil for 30 minutes.

2. Strain the mauby and add the additional 8 cups water. Then taste for sweetness.

3. You can add additional sugar to it if it is not sweet enough for you.

4. Add bitters

5. Bottle

Serve ice cold with ice.

Makes 3 bottles

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17 Comments »

  • Freya said:

    This looks yummy, very refreshing and very moreish! I love your blog by the way!

    # 16 February 2007 at 3:57 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    thanks freya! :D

    # 16 February 2007 at 9:14 am | link
  • MeltingWok said:

    ‘k, quick question, Sarina, if I do drink this, will “I lose 40 lbs” ? *grins* Anyway, haven’t heard or seen mauby bark before, thx for sharing, oo..you’re moving from pots to bottles now, awww ! :)

    # 17 February 2007 at 4:49 am | link
  • Chennette said:

    impressive – you make mauby :-)

    # 18 February 2007 at 8:33 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    it was fun :D and easy :D dad wants me to make it a mauby fizz next time around by addin yeast… i may give it a try :D

    # 19 February 2007 at 11:15 am | link
  • Beenzzz said:

    I remember drinking mauby when I was a little girl. I haven’t had it since then. Nice memories!

    # 19 February 2007 at 1:19 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    :)

    # 19 February 2007 at 1:41 pm | link
  • Trig said:

    Dad told me all about mauby ages ago. When he went to St. Vincent twenty years ago, he drank mauby all the time and really enjoyed it. He couldn’t wait to find a source of it when he got back home. But when he eventually ordered some in a restaurant in Seven Sisters Road it tasted awful.

    I have the same experience with Lipton ice tea, which I drink all the time in Portugal in the Summer but can’t stand back in London. So I reckon there’s something about the temperature and the culture in which you drink something that makes it taste quite different.

    # 22 February 2007 at 9:51 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    funny you should mention Lipton.. my uncle in the US is always having us send him boxes of the stuff… he says ours tastes different to the American … isn’t that odd? Tho I can vouch for the fact that Trinidadian KFC is worlds above US KFC … (weird eh?) :D

    have you had good mauby? :)

    # 22 February 2007 at 10:08 am | link
  • Leslie said:

    Hi Sarina,

    I had a dream about drinking mauby so viola, I found your blog. I see that you have a shop but I don’t see mauby listed — could you post the direct link to the shopping cart for this item?

    Wonderful recipies! Keep up the good work.
    Be Free,
    Leslie

    # 24 September 2007 at 10:51 am | link
  • michele said:

    I wanted to try making maubi myself and as i am looking at the list of ingredients i fail to see where the rice comes in. It has not been mantioned. should i boil the bark with the rice?

    # 14 March 2009 at 8:58 pm | link
  • Sarina (author) said:

    Michele, I’m a bit confused. What rice are you referring to?

    # 14 March 2009 at 9:09 pm | link
  • Mmmeister said:

    This site should be more active, with frequent responses from you.

    I’ve asked about the health benefits(if any, apart from being a ‘refreshing drink’) of mauby, only to be left with….no answer ;-(

    # 11 August 2009 at 5:06 am | link
  • Sarina (author) said:

    I would love to be more active, however I am one person doing this as a labour of love and sometimes life and economic/familial responsibilities mean that commenting and updating have to take the backseat. I’m sure you understand :) . Your original comment did not make your question clear which was why it remained unanswered. The only study that has been conducted scientifically on mauby states that when taken in combination with coconut milk it can help to lower blood pressure. Other than that, everything else is folklore.

    # 11 August 2009 at 9:23 pm | link
  • Mmmeister said:

    Fantastic!! An actual response – despite the “economic/familial responsibilities”. Good. I thought this was one of those websites gathering dust, but I see the ‘dust’ has been shaken ;-)

    Thanks for the response, and I await the explanation of why ‘coconut milk’ added to mauby can help ;-)

    # 12 August 2009 at 9:05 am | link
  • Sarina (author) said:

    I did some more digging just now and found out that the study was with Coconut Water (not milk). The details are here (I haven’t had time to go through it though)

    http://caribbean.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0043-31442005000100002&lng=en&nrm=

    Hope that helps :)

    # 12 August 2009 at 12:02 pm | link
  • Ana White said:

    I live here in Fl and I would like to know where I can buy some Maubi bark to make Maubi. Can you help mea?

    # 28 November 2009 at 12:35 pm | link

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