SC - Ice Cream

[Paul the Great]

At 07:37 PM 1/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>HI Aoife:
>        Thanks for the recent posting of your feast menu from the baronial
>inaguration in Endless Hills!  It sounds like it was/ will be a tasty event.
>        On the sesame candy.....the stuff that they made in Sierra Leone is
>not halwa (essentially a sesame based "peanut butter fudge".  This was more
>like sesame seed brittle.  I *really* wish that I had learned to make it.
>They must have caramelized sugar to some point & added lightly toasted
>sesame seeds.  The candy was 95% sesame seeds.  They pressed it to almost
>paper thinness & cut it in smallish rectangles.  Overall, it was a bit
>sticky & almost flexible.  I've had some hard candy from Korea that is
>similar in taste, but different in texture.  I've tried making this, but the
>silly stuff tends to harden long before I can get it to press down thin
>enough to my liking.  It would probably help to make this on a very hot
>humid day in summer....perhaps the extra heat in the atmosphere would
>prevent the candy from hardening prematurely.
>                Happy New Year,                 Antoine
>Dan Gillespie
>dangilsp at intrepid.net
>Dan_Gillespie at usgs.gov
>Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA 
>
>
I'm cc'ing to the list, 'cause they might find it interesting.

Pastelli (Sesame Candy, from Greece), from Middle Eastern Cooking, HP Books
ISBN0-89586-184-4 copyright 1982, Tucson Arizona

For thousands of years, this candy has been made in many Middle Eastern
countries*

1 (1-lb) jar honey (2 cups)
1 lb. hulled sesame seeds

Butter an 8-inch square pan. Set aside. heat honey in a medium saucepan over
medium heat until a candy thermometer registers 280degrees farenheit (140C).
At this temperature, syrup dropped into cold water will seperate into
threads which are hard but not brittle. Stir in sesame seeds. immediately
pour into prepard pa. Cool slightly. While still soft, cut into diagonal 2"
x 1" strips or diamond shapes. Do not remove from pan until candy is firm.
Makes about 3 pounds.

* This statment appears in the book, unsubstantiated.


Enjoy! And Happy New Year!

Aoife

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