red hembarig

[gethin]

Does anyone know what red hembarig was and when it ceased production ?

All the references I've seen (usually in recipies for the Roffignac cocktail) refer to it as something that used to be used and most suggest raspberry syrup as a substitute. (though a few suggest grenadine).

I assume that the "hembarig" part is somehow related to the german "himbeere" and that raspberry syrup is going to be more authentic. Is this correct ?

Did "red hembarig" contain anything more than raspberries and sugar ?

Does the Roffignac cocktail date from the 1820's (when Roffignac was mayor of New Orleans ) or is it a later invention named after him ?

gethin

[Splificator]

As far as I can determine, it's just raspberry syrup.

The drink's history is a murky one; the earliest references to it I've been able to find date only the turn of the last century, give or take a few years.

In any case, it's unlikely to be much older than the 1850s, when raspberry syrup was the hot new ingredient that everyone was using in their drinks.

[slkinsey]

I assume that the "hembarig" part is somehow related to the german "himbeere" and that raspberry syrup is going to be more authentic.

I would assume that this is simply a mispelling unique to Stanley Clisby Arthur, or perhaps one that was common around New Orleans for a time. One can understand how the German word himbeere could come to be mispronounced "hembarig" over a number of years and generations much the same way, for example, New Jersey Italian-Americans pronounce coppacola as "gabbagool."

The "red" part would refer to red raspberries as opposed to black raspberries.