[Sca-cooks] Honey Butter? No! No!

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 4 Mar 2002, at 19:53, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> I may also serve some other "spreads". I'll explore my Near Eastern
> cookbooks. A local Persian shop sells "carrot spoon fruit" - not that
> i think carrots are fruit, but the carrots are finely grated, cooked
> with sugar, orange peel, sliced almonds, and spices. I vaguely recall
> something slightly similar in something i read...
[snip]
> So perhaps i also hallucinated Medieval Near Eastern carrot sweets -
> although there are quite a few carrot sweets in modern Persia and
> India. If i don't find a "period" recipe, i'm not making it.

There's a recipe for "carrot paste" in the Anonymous Andalusian
Cookbook of the 13th Century, which is webbed on Cariadoc and
Elizabeth's page:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/an
dalusian10.htm#Heading519


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net