[Sca-cooks] alfajores/al-hasu
Suey
lordhunt at gmail.com
Fri May 5 08:03:05 PDT 2006
These are cookies with filling of Arab origin. In Spain they date back
to the 8th Century, although Argentineans declare them as a national
creole dessert but they are thought to date back to the 19th only there.
That is odd as the conquistadors brought Hispano-Arab concubines with
them to the new world who in turn brought their recipes. Spanish
alfajores (al-hasu in Arabic) are square not round as in South America.
The idea is to fill them with quince. Now the question is does anyone
have a dependable recipe for them and/or any more news on their history?
Sue
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