[Sca-cooks] HALVAH ICE CREAM & uncooked eggs

[david friedman]

On a tangent--one could argue that all ice cream is Halvah.

As some of you may have noticed, words close to halva describe two
unrelated sweets--the middle eastern sesame stuff and an Indian
desert. What I believe is going on is that both are variants of an
Arabic word that means, roughly, "sweets." At least, in medieval
Islamic cookbooks, you have a category labeled Hulwa or something
similar, which consists of a variety of desert type dishes. The one I
frequently make is basically a divinity.
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David/Cariadoc
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