[Sca-cooks] rice cooked in yogurt?

[Crandall]

Commercial yogurt is usually thickened or in the case of Greek style, strained. 
I made my own yogurt for many years and it was not thicker than heavy cream. 

Crandall, Olde Phart 

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--- On Wed, 2/29/12, David Walddon <david at vastrepast.com> wrote:

> From: David Walddon <david at vastrepast.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] rice cooked in yogurt?
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:03 PM
> My thought is the yogurt is
> translated wrong or that the yogurt they are thinking of is
> much thinner than what we think of as yogurt. It could be
> cultured milk products that are yogurt like but not as firm
> as modern yogurt. Then it would not scald. 
> You can cook rice in milk or cream without it scalding. 
> Eduardo 
> 
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Sayyeda al-Kaslaania wrote:
> 
> > How can this work? Soaking the rice in warm water
> before cooking would help, but the yogurt would still scald
> before the rice cooks. I could see adding a cup of the broth
> back into the pot, but this translation clearly says to
> remove the broth. Thoughts?
> > 
> > Sayyeda al-Kaslaania
> > 
> > 39. /Labaniyya R//u-miyya/: Greek (or Byzantine) yogurt
> stew
> > 
> > A pound of meat is parboiled to eliminate the stench,
> until it is cooked halfway through; then the chopped leaves
> of chard are added and cooked. When everything is cooked,
> the meat, the broth, and chard are removed from the pot and
> pound of yogurt and a half /u-qiya/ of rice are poured [into
> the pot] and mixed together so that rice is cooked. At this
> point the meat and chard are added back, together with a
> small quantity of broth, and cooked with mint leaves. After
> having transferred [the contents of the pot] to a plate
> [/zubdiyya/], the [dish] is sprinkled with crushed garlic.
> This can be prepared with turnips in place of the chard.
> > 
> > From: Zaouali, Lilia, and M.B. DeBevoise (trans.).
> /Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A concise history
> with 174 recipes/.University of California Press: Berkley,
> 2007. The recipe is translated from a thirteenth century
> Syrian text called (in transliterated English) /Kitab
> al-Wusla il//a-al-habi-b fi-wasf al-tayyiba-t
> wa-l-ti-b/("The Book of Relation with the Beloved in the
> Description of the Best Dishes and Spices"). This was
> translated into Italian and then into English.
> > 
> > During this period, rice was "typically husked white
> rice (/aruzz abyad maqshur/)," according to Mark Nesbitt,
> et. al. in "History of Rice in Western and Central Asia"
> <http://www.ancientgrains.org/rice2010nesbitt.pdf.pdf>
> (Opens a .pdf.)
> > 
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