SC - duck and bread

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/26/00 8:04:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
margali at 99main.com writes:

<< The third, abbasid qata'if sounds like a filled pita or maybe
 ravioli cooked... >>

It sounds to me like phyllo pastry as a base. I fail to see how others are 
getting a noodle interpretation outside the desire to find something 
different in the recipe..... Explain, please.... From the poem cited very 
thin pastry is suggested....ONLY phyllo fits this description. There is no 
noodle dough that does so. When cooked phyllo clearly raises the recipe from 
common to the sublime. I cannot see how any caliph would settle for less than 
the indicated sublime......

Ras
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