SC - Feast Themes/ginge
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Fri Jun 20 13:35:18 PDT 1997
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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