[Sca-cooks] plantain, bananas, herbals

[David Friedman]

>A cooking tray is lined with flatbread and topped with something 
>sweet, often something toothachingly sweet: fanid = taffy made of 
>sugar, sometimes with nuts; crushed nuts and sugar; lauzinaj which i 
>didn't describe but have discussed on this list - it is some sort of 
>wrapper described in poetry of its day as gossamer as a 
>grasshopper's wing filled with crushed nuts and sugar. Sometimes the 
>sweets are topped with another layer of ruqaq, but not necessarily.

Note that lauzinaj can also mean just the crushed nuts and sugar, 
without the wrapper, which might make more sense here.

Speaking of which, I did some experimenting on the wrapper--cooked 
from a batter as thin as milk, on a pan that is "greased" with 
beeswax--a while ago. I can get something that fits the grasshopper's 
wing description, but it's brittle, so won't wrap things. I can get 
something flexible, but it's basically a thin crepe.

I've been wondering if perhaps the solution is to make the brittle 
version, damp it down to make it flexible, wrap the filling in it, 
then let it try. But I haven't tried that yet.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com