[Sca-cooks] Help please...

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Elaine Koogler <ekoogler1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Actually, I think we found the proto-baklava
> in* *the "*Chu-chia pi-yung 
> shih lei "*, a late 14^th c. household
> encyclopedia. These recipes were 
> part of an article written by Dr. Paul Buell,
> which dealt with Muslim 
> influences on the Mongol culture.
> 
> Gullach
> 
> Mix evenly egg white, bean paste and cream [to
> make a dough]. Spread out 
> [dough] and fry into thin pancakes. Use one
> layer of white powdered 
> sugar, [ground] pine nuts and [ground] walnuts
> for each layer of 
> pancake. Make three-four layers like this. Pour
> honey dissolved in ghee 
> [“Muslim oil”] over the top. Eat.
> 
> 2 Egg whites
> 1/2 cup soy flour
> 1/2cup table cream
> 1/16 cup water
> 3 tbsp. Powdered sugar
> 1/2 cup Pine nuts, ground
> 1/2 cup Walnuts, ground
> 1/2 cup Honey
> 3 tbsp. Ghee
> 
> Mix egg white, bean paste and cream together to
> form a batter. Spread 
> out the batter onto a griddle and fry into thin
> pancakes. Place one 
> pancake on a dish, covering it with a layer of
> white powdered sugar, 
> ground pine nuts and walnuts. Place a second
> pancake on top and repeat 
> layering until there are three or four layers.
> Melt honey with ghee and 
> pour over stack of pancakes.
> 
> According to Paul, this is, in all likelihood,
> the precursor of baklava, 
> that wonderful dessert so common throughout the
> Middle East. This view 
> is also supported by Cariadoc.
> 
> And, best of all...it's yummy!
> 
> Kiri

Really?  Because it isn't supported by Charles
Perry or the late Alan Davidson.  They have
found evidence of an 11th Century proto-baklava
amongst the Turkish Nomads.  Of course, it
is using layered, thinly cut bread, rather than
the pancake, but still an earlier precursor.

Of course, filo [or phylo] waan't developed
until the late 17th century Ottomans.

Huette

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