[Sca-cooks] hais

[Marcha]

Sorry...I buy whole dates and then process them until ...well until they are 
a homogenous mixture and then I add everything else.  Plus I use melted 
butter.
Bertie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] hais


> Bertha commented:
> <<< I use the recipe for Hais in "Serving the Guest the Sufi Way" and  I 
> swear by it. Matter of fact I have three Hais left from the batch I  made 
> for Laurel's prize last month and they are still edible.
>
>  I have never had a failure plus I search for the softest, stickiest, 
> pitted dates I can find at my local Sun Harvest.>>>
>
> I didn't consider going to Sun Harvest for the dates but I didn't want  to 
> spend a lot of time going all over town searching for one pound of  dates, 
> but then I thought I'd have a lot larger variety of dates at  Central 
> Market since for many fruits and vegetables they seem to have  quite a 
> variety. I'll have to check them out in the future when I get  a chance.
>
> Do you buy the whole dates? or chopped dates? It sounds like the  former 
> when you say you find the softest, stickiest ones. But those  also seemed 
> to be much more expensive.
>
> Thanks,
>   Stefan
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