[Sca-cooks] Off topic?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Sandy mensik:
>Is there a recipie available for " Aplets and Cotlets" ?

Would that be pork chops with apple slices?

>  There is a company called Liberty Orchards that makes some 
>wonderful fruit and nut candies and the original  recipie is 
>supposed to have originated in the " near east". Some place called 
>Locoum.

"Locoum" turns up in the names of several Mediterranean and Middle 
Eastern sweets, such as in the names of rahat loukoum (a.k.a. Turkish 
Delight, a famous fruit-and-nut candy usually made from fresh dates) 
and loukoumades, a Greek hand-formed fritter similar to a zeppole or 
doughnut, fried and then soaked in a syrup. While it's possible 
"Locoum" is a place name, it doesn't absolutely follow that that is 
the case. Based on the evidence at hand, one could easily speculate, 
until something better comes along, that it's an Arabic word for 
"sweet".

Adamantius
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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
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Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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