[Sca-cooks] Around the Mediterranean in four easy courses...

[david friedman]

About a month ago, Anahita wrote:

>So, i'm cooking the Mists Principality Bardic feast - three or four
>courses plus dessert with the different "tests" of the Bardic
>competition between each course. This will be in early September -
>the beginning of our summer weather.
>
>The current Bard, who is the host of this feast, wants me to serve
>the Bustaniyya i made for the Iron Chef Persian, but he doesn't want
>an entire Near Eastern feast (after all, he's Irish)...
>
>He also requested baklava, which he knows isn't exactly "period". I
>can make something close by altering a "period" recipe or i can use a
>recipe from my Eastern Mediterranean modern pastry book (some of
>which are pretty close to the pastries in "the Book of the
>Description of Familiar Foods").

Or you could make khushkananaj. It isn't baklava, but I have had
someone asking me for the recipe describe it to me as "a kind of dry
baklava". It might be close enough to make him happy.

Elizabeth