[Sca-cooks] Khabisa with Pomegranate

Dragon dragon at crimson-dragon.com
Fri Mar 28 08:09:07 PDT 2008


Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>On Mar 26, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Pat Griffin wrote:
> > Since the original recipe calls for "semolina" and not "ground
> > semolina" or
> > "semolina flour", I would substitute wheat berries.  Whole different
> > texture
> > going on, I'd think.
>
>I think semolina is, by definition, ground, and then sometimes
>processed additionally into stuff like couscous. The wheat used would
>be something like durum, no?
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Bingo.

Durum = hard wheat = Triticum durum (sometimes, though rarely, 
referred to as macaroni wheat).

Semolina = flour made from T. durum

:-)

Dragon

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