[Sca-cooks] Re: Sugar and Persian Cookies

[wildecelery at aol.com]

Briefly, no. Artificial sweeteners don't crystallize properly.

I'm interested in the idea of a lavender rock candy. Personally, I'd be 

fooling around with lemon, mint, cherry, or ginger flavorings before I 
ever got

around to lavender. This is the stuff people sucked on for sore throats 
or dry
throats (from speech-making) before medicated cough drops came to grace 
us
with  their presence. Slippery elm, anyone?

I'm working on ginger and rose also. I plan to try mint and violet once 
I can pick them fresh from the garden.  I'm allergic to all forms of 
citrus, thus lemon is off limits to me...I don't have the willpower to 
resist tastin it!

-Ardenia

Greetings Ardenia,
    Try Nuhud al-'Adhra (Virgin's Breasts) version 2 from my article at
http://windchild.net/islamic_pastries.htm . It is one of my favorites.
Dinah
Sayyida Dinah bint Ismai'l

Thank you!




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