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

[Chass Brown]

lol Apologies if it was from your site could have sworn though on the page I 
printed it from said it was Turkish as well... I will keep going through my 
omg webpage fav file and see if I can find it again. But they really are 
very very good

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: "David Friedman" <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Turkish travel food (trail mix)


> 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
>>>--------
>>>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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