[Sca-cooks] catching drippings

[vicki shaw]

Can you imagine being satisfied with meat loaf, hamburgers, hot dogs and
pizza when there are such exquisite and subtle things to eat out there in
the wide world!

Angharad

 > Judhab Lhubz al-Qata'if. Take qata'if-bread as required: spray the
> dish with a little rose-water, and place the bread thereon in layers,
> putting between each layer almonds and sugar, or pistachio ground
> fine: spray again with rose-water. When the bread fills the dish,
> pour on a little fresh sesame-oil, and cover with syrup. Hang over it
> a fat plucked chicken, smeared with saffron: when cooked, remove.
> Small stuffed qata'if are also treated in this way.
>
> A later judhab recipe says:
>
> The method of suspending the chicken over judhab is as follows. Hang
> it up in the oven, and watch: then, when the fat is about to run,
> place the judhab under it.
>
> Elizabeth of Dendermonde/Betty Cook
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