[Sca-cooks] "Blattes de Bysance" in the Baghdad cookery book

[Barbara Benson]

I have always thought that dried dates, when you pit them and squash them
flat, look alot like the Cockroaches we had when I lived on the coast of
South Carolina. Commonly known as Palmetto Bugs.

Probablly not what they are talking about tho.

-Serena da Riva

ps: I made 400 ravioli's last night.
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> --- Robin Carroll-Mann <rcmann4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Does anyone who what this mystery ingredient is?
> > Our cook's
> > guild is doing Middle Eastern for the next meeting,
> > so I've been
> > reading through the Anonymous Andalusian and
> > al-Baghdadi.  The
> > literal translation seems to be "cockroaches of
> > Byzantium".  I
> > thought I'd seen this discussed somewhere, but a
> > Google search
> > isn't turning anything up.
> >
> >
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