SC - qataif
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 29 18:52:26 PDT 2000
Answered privately.
Huette
- --- LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/29/00 8:17:56 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:
>
> << Except for the fact that filo/phyllo dough was
> not
> created until the mid-17th century. According to
> the
> Oxford Companion to Food, the medieval predecessors
> were thin breads and noodles, which the varying
> qatâif
> recipes seem to prove. >>
>
> Would it be possible for you to forward me the exact
> passage in entirety
> privately? I have been substituting phyllo pastry in
> any recipes that call
> for qataif in al-Baghdadi with wonderful results.
> However, with a little
> elbow grease and continual processing I am sure that
> I can get my pasta
> machine to make paper thin wide noodles. Looks like
> experimenting is in the
> stars. :-)
>
> Ras
> The test of good manners is to be patient with bad
> ones.- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
> http://members.aol.com/AbhainnCG/
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