SC - Feast Themes/ginge

[david friedman]

At 9:07 AM -0700 6/20/97, Marisa Herzog wrote:

>This recipe kinda looks like "halwah" (halvah?) to me- a middle eastern
>confection made with seseme seeds or other nuts (I think I have seen recipes
>using almonds and hazelnuts)- except for the ginger.  Very yummy, would appear
>to be period and you can currently buy it at most supermarkets!  Except that
>the modern version is usually marbled with cocoa powder to add color.

"Hulwa" means, roughly, "sweets," and is the name of lots of period Islamic
things. I don't think I have found anything exactly corresponding to what
we now call halvah in the period cookbooks, although I vaguely remember
something somewhat similar.


David/Cariadoc
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