SC - favorite sweet

[david friedman]

At 7:36 PM +0000 9/8/99, Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
>Ras wrote:
>>One of the simplest and tastiest sweets is Judges Mouthfuls from
>al-Baghdadi
>>(1226 CE). It is simply a raised dough from which pieces are pinched and
>>dropped in hot fat to cook. They are drained and dipped in honey. Think
>>glazed doughnut holes from raised doughnuts.
>>
>>Since there are literally dozens of sites throughout Wales alone where
>>Islamic coin has been found in digs, it is not too much to  believe that
>>these delectable morsels of a civilized nation might have been used  by the
>>barbarians of the North.
>
>
>Arabic coins minted around the year 1000 have even been found in Iceland -
>you mean I could serve Lokma (Turkish yeast puffs cooked in hot oil and
>dipped in honey, preferably orange flower honey) at a Viking feast? (Only
>they would have used suet for cooking - might just change the flavor a wee
>bit.)

1. Do you have a period recipe for Lokma? Just because they had
international trade, it doesn't follow that they had time travel.

2. In any case, it is a lot easier to transport coins for long distances
with no adverse effects than to do the same with pastry. So I don't think
the presence of Islamic coins, in Wales or Iceland, provides much reason to
believe that the relevant populations ate Islamic pastry.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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