[Sca-cooks] walme...can't remember

Sayyeda al-Kaslaania samia at idlelion.net
Mon Jul 16 06:01:40 PDT 2012


A Middle Eastern recipe reads that you remove the pot from the fire and 
return it three times. I conjectured that it could be because of the 
difficulty in maintaining a simmer, which is what the recipe appears to 
need.

Sayyeda al-Kaslaania

On 7/16/2012 5:09 AM, Elise Fleming wrote:
> Greetings!  I've known that "walme" means a boil or bubble, but just 
> how does one do "boil it a walme or two"?  When I get water to boil, 
> it stays boiling.  How does one get the boiling to happen twice?  If 
> it's turning down the temperature and then back up, how long do we 
> guess this to be?
>
> Alys K.



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