[Sca-cooks] A camel recipe from Charles Perry

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Perry"
To: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Camels


> Here's a typical medieval camel recipe. It's called jazuriyya; jazur is
the
> word for a slaughter camel, derived from a verb meaning to slaughter. This
> one appears in Kitab al-Tabikh by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq, compiled in the
10th
> century mostly from the private recipe collections of the 8th- and
> 9th-century caliphs of Baghdad and their circle.
> Jazuriyya
> Cut 4 pounds camel meat, 1 pound camel hump and 1 pound camel liver in
thin
> strips. Put the meat in a pot with with 1 cup water, 1 1/3 cups oil, the
> juice of 1 pound onions and 2 teaspoons salt and cook, loosely covered,
> until the water has evaporated and the meat starts to fry. Add the hump
and
> fry together. Add 2 cups vinegar and cook until tender. Then throw in the
> liver with 1 cup onion puree and plenty of coriander, salt, pepper and
> caraway, and cook until
> done.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
> To: Charles Perry
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:56 AM
> Subject: Fw: Camels
>
>
> > I was hoping you might help- Gene Anderson suggested I might ask you. Do
> you
> > have any recipes available for camel? I'm thinking particularly ribs,
> and/or
> > from the Medieval Arabic corpus? We've got the classic, stuff a camel
with
> a
> > sheep, etc.
> >
> >
> > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> >
> > > Oh good heavens.  I haven't a clue either.  Feed them to a lion, I
dare
> > > say.  I should think any recipe for tough old cow ribs would be
> > > suitable.  But if you want real recipes, your only hope this side of
> Araby
> > > is Charles Perry at <address deleted>.  As you know, he's the
> world
> > > expert on Arab food history.  I ate bear ribs in the Canadian outback
> > once,
> > > and they were tough and gamy enough!
> > > I hope camels are better.
> > > best--Gene

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