[Sca-cooks] HALVAH ICE CREAM & uncooked eggs

[A. F. Murphy]

Thank you! I've eaten sesame halvah all my life, and I can get really good
stuff in a local store. Meanwhile, I've had carrot halwah, which is quite
different... I want to make it sometime, I watched my friend make it, but I
have wondered how they got the same name!

Anne


> [Original Message]
> From: david friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
 > Date: 11/21/01 12:11:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] HALVAH ICE CREAM  & uncooked eggs
>
> 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.
> --
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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