[Sca-cooks] period vegetarian dish with the insides of eggplants

[david friedman]

>Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
>Make a sauce of vinegar, oil,
>>  almori, and mashed garlic; give all this a shaking and pour it over
>>  the top.
>>
>>  1 large eggplant (1 lb 3 oz) 1 T oil 2 T oil
>
>Hey, your Grace, what's "almori"? Don't think I've ever seen that mentioned
>before...

Well, if you are going to limit yourself to the cooking of the 
barbarians ...  .

Almori, sometimes given as "Murri," is a condiment that plays a role 
in medieval islamic cooking similar to the role of soy sauce in 
Chinese cooking. It was made by an extensive process involving 
fermentation and used, usually in spoonful quantities, in lots of 
different things.

I've never made proper Murri, although Charles Perry has. But there 
is a period recipe for fake Murri--and a period warning against using 
it. So that's what we use. The recipe is in the Miscellany.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/