[Sca-cooks] Honey Butter? No! No!
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 5 00:09:07 PST 2002
phoenissa at netscape.net
>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...
>
>Well, here's a "carrot paste" from the Andalusian cookbook:
>---
>Carrot Paste
>
>Take a ratl of carrots, of which you have cleaned the interior. (Do
>they mean core them??) Cook it in a ratl of water, some two boilings,
>then take it off the fire and let it dry a littl, over a sieve. Add
>it to three
>ratls of honey, cleaned of its foam, and cook all this until it takes the
>form of a paste. Then season it with ginger, galingale, cubeb, and flowers
>[of clove?], half an uqiya in all for each ratle. Eat it like a nut at meals.
>Its benefits: it fortifies coitus (!) and increases desire beautifully; it
>is admirable.
Ah, thanks to you, and to Brighid ni Chiarain who sent along a link.
This is the one i was remembering (i have the book in xerox form).
It's good to know it wasn't a figment of my imagination :-)
As for taking out the interior... yes, they cored their carrots. In
the past, the centers were much more fibrous than they are now, i
have read. I think that with good carrots today that wouldn't be
necessary. However, i have sometimes gotten carrots whose cores were
rather bitter, so at least taste testing would be in order.
And, well, why not a strengthener of coitus? Carrots are full of
vitamins. I won't, however, be responsible for what autonomous adults
do after my feast :-)
Anahita
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