[Sca-cooks] Turkish travel food (trail mix)

[David Friedman]

That's our recipe for Hais from the _Miscellany_--verbatim. What's 
the web page--if they don't credit the source I'll write them about 
it.

It isn't Turkish. The recipe is from al-Baghdadi, which is 13th c. 
middle eastern.

>Ok you asked for it roflmao
>Hais
>(al-Baghdadi p. 214/14[good])
>2 2/3 cups breadcrumbs
>2c pitted dates
>1/3 c ground almonds
>1/3 c ground pistachios
>7 T melted butter or sesame oil
>enough sugar
>(I also added ground fresh figs about 1 cup and increased the 
>breadcrumbs by 1/2 cup bread crumbs and 2 more T of butter)
>
>Mix breadcrumbs dates (figs if you add them like I did) and nuts in 
>food processor or blender and oil. Roll into one inch balls and 
>douse with sugar. These things have an awesome shelf life as well... 
>the person brags about taking them to wars and saying "They last 
>forever if you don't eat them, but you will so they don't". I tried 
>these and have to agree they are awesome.
>
>I apparently lost the webpage I got this dish from and this is the 
>translation I didn't put it in the period terms (I just printed out 
>the page and put it in my period cookbook lol). When you try it I 
>wanna hear what ya think, I think next time I will also try it with 
>added dried cherries....
>
>Chass of Rundel of Ansteorra aka of the SCA aka
>Charinthalis Del Sans of the portable Chariot
>Honorable Recruiter of the House of the Red Shark (Have you seen my 
>Belaying Pin??)
>Maison Du Corsaire Rouge
>Muddeler of Mead, Ailment of Ale, Whiner of wine.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan li Rous" 
><StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
>To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:50 PM
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Turkish travel food (trail mix)
>
>>  Chass of Rundel said:
>>>Speaking of nuts.. Someone sent me a webpage with a translation of a
>>>period recipe for a Turkish travel food.. and it was basically trailmix in
>>>rolled balls... made it and it was actually quite nice.
>>And the website or recipe is?
>>What is used to hold the trail mix into a ball?
>>
>>Stefan
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>>THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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