[Sca-cooks] Arabic dish with a name similar to Brustinga?

[David Walddon]

Forwarded with permission from the Madrone Culinary Guild List to see  
if anyone out there has so information on the below.

Please reply here and I will forward or to erain at liripipe dot com

Thanks

Eduardo


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> I’m trying to find further information on an early Italian dish  
> called in the latin ‘Brustinga’.  One offhanded reference implies  
> that the name may be of Arabic origin as in the dishes Limonia/ 
> Limuniyya and Romania/Rummaniyya (yumm pomegranate chicken!!!).
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> Have any of you come across any dishes of similar name?  the  
> Italian dish is a kind of pie filled with a mix of cheese, flour &  
> eggs w/saffron, but that may not have much to do with the original  
> Arabic dish, as some of these dishes mutated beyond recognition,  
> keeping only an echo of the original name….
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> Thanks for any leads.
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> Eden
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