SC - questions/kinda long, sorry
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Sun Jun 18 22:14:47 PDT 2000
At 2:50 PM -0700 6/18/00, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
>Recently someone with a Laurel in cooking (which they got at least
>20 years ago) criticized my Near Eastern food because i make my
>almond milk with water. They said to be period it would be made with
>wine or verjus.
The person in question is wrong. It's occasionally made with wine or
broth; off hand I don't remember any examples with verjus. But there
are definitely recipes that specify water.
>Well, i didn't let that bother me. A Muslim would certainly not have
>made almond milk with wine, and so far i haven't noticed almond milk
>made with verjus in any Near Eastern resources, although verjus
>figures as an ingredient in some recipes.
I can't remember any references to almond milk in the period Islamic
corpus; what recipes were you thinking of?
David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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