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So might a garden flower in turn be kissed
By sun and moon, by radiance and mist."



>Also, if anyone knows exactly what a kamakh is,

[Arberry notes Rijal is the arabicized form of the Persian (? illegible) ,
[meaning] "confection, electuary" & cites Steing??? Sorry the text is too
small & broken.
He refers to a note about shuniz, but does not give the page number & I
can't find it.

[page 207]
"KAMAKH RIJAL
There are several varieties of this, but all follow the same recipe, only
differing in ingredients. First take a large, dry pumpkin-shell from which
all the pith and seeds have been removed: soak in water for two hours, then
dry thoroughly. Put in 5 ratls of sour milk, 10 ratls of fresh milk, and 1
1/2 ratls of fine-brayed salt, and stir.  Cover, and leave for some days in
the hot sun. This is first made in June, at the beginning of the
mid-summer. Each morning add 3 ratls of fresh milk, and stir morning and
evening. Add milk as the liquid lessens, until the beginning of August. Now
take mint-leaves, shuniz, and quarters of peeled garlic, throw in, and
stir, adding fresh milk to make up as usual, until the middle of September.
Cover until the beginning of October: then remove from the sun until set,
and serve. There is also the simple variety, in which no [aromatic]
ingredients are used; another, in which shuniz and garlic are used; and
another, in which are used the dried leaves of the red rose cut off from
the stalk."


 or how to get
>flowering tarragon that too would be good <g> :)

Go to your local garden center, the herb section & say to the attendant
"Look! Halley's comet!"

HTH,

Cindy