SC - Qata'if -- duck and bread

[david friedman]

At 5:59 PM +0200 8/28/00, TG wrote:
>David/Cariadoc wrote:
><< Note that the description is pretty clearly not of a shredded pastry,
>but of thin sheets--consistent with the material I quoted earlier. >>
>
>Yes, my opinion so far is perfectly in spirit with the
>not-a-shredded-pastry-view.
>
>What I was trying to say: the basic quata'if lookes more like a dessert
>than a chicken dish to me.

I don't think the "basic quata'if" is a kind of dish--I think it is 
an ingredient (thin, flat bread or pasta) that can be used in a 
variety of dishes.

>
>So far I can see, three features are typical:
>-- the use of some kind of flat bread
>-- the use of honey and some kind of fat, seasonings
>-- the arrangement, normally, in several layers [the "aberrant" one
>has only one layer, maybe this is only a very "simple" version]

The aberrant one has no layers of flat bread at all--presumably it 
has the name for some other reason.

David/Cariadoc
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