SC - questions/kinda long, sorry

[david friedman]

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
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http://www.daviddfriedman.com/