[Sca-cooks] Pt. 3 - Medieval Persian Iron Chef

[Sandra Kisner]

>The original was made of some sort of semolina sourdough batter.
>Although it is described as being for "pancakes", there really aren't
>any pancakes like our modern ones that i can think of in the Near
>Eastern corpus. Rather there are some very flat, almost translucent,
>stretched-out, stove-top cooked pan breads. I haven't eaten any Near
>Eastern sourdough breads that i know of... so this would be something
>to test and experiment with.

     I seem to remember a bread/spongy pancake made with tef that was quite sour.  Injera?  It may have been from Ethiopia, however.

Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu