[Sca-cooks] Ka'ak recipe -- someone still looking for one?

[David Friedman]

>So that's three period recipes for ka'ak in cookbooks (plus unseen 
>possibilities in Ibn Sina). I'm sure there are some in the 14th c. 
>"Book of the Description of Familiar Foods", and it includes a 
>confectioner's manual (it's in M.A.C. - Medieval Arab Cookery).

I'm afraid not. The Rodinson piece mentions that there are three in 
the book he is discussing, but the book itself isn't translated in 
_Medieval Arab Cookery_ (or anywhere else that I know of). 
_Description of Familiar Foods_ mentions Ka'ak several times but 
doesn't provide a recipe for making it.
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David/Cariadoc
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