[Sca-cooks] Hulwa? Related Sweets?
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun Jun 19 18:28:00 PDT 2005
Amra asked:
> Having been introduced to this confection today by HL Saqra al-Kudsi,
> in her
> kitchen as part of advanced preparation for Lindenwood Midsummer Masked
> Ball
> this year, I am looking for more information about the origins,
> variations,
> and related developments that may exist out there. (For those who may
> be as
> new to this concept as I was, hulwa [hul-wah?] might be considered an
> ancestor or parallel development of divinity and similar boiled-sugar
> candies...)
There is info on Halwa and recipes in these two Florilegium files in
the FOOD-SWEETS section:
candy-msg (221K) 3/28/05 Period candy. Recipes. Candied
fruit peels.
desserts-msg (134K) 6/17/04 Medieval and SCA dessert recipes.
Sweets.
Stefan
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Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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