[Sca-cooks] Ibn Battula"s Meals
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Sun Oct 3 20:19:55 PDT 2010
> The reference to macaroni puzzles. It references some sort of pasta of
> that I'm reasonably sure. I'm suspecting that he is likely talking about
> broad flat noodles. Would they be made from wheat?
>
> Dan
Triticun durum (AKA T. turgidum) , the wheat most commonly used in making
pasta, has been grown in North Africa since at least Roman times. It would
have been a trade good in the Moslem world of the 14th Century, so there is
a good possibility that the pasta mentioned was made from T. durum. Since
durum was being grown in Dhufar (west coast of the Arabian Peninsula), the
Horn of Africa would have had easy access to it.
Bear
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