[Sca-cooks] Serving stuff over rice

[Betsy Marshall]

Which brings to mind a query; how/when was couscous (i.e. tiny balls of
wheat, or pasta) used? Maybe rice came in later and was adapted to this use?
-Pyro (sorry, nothing to contribute but questions today)

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Subject: [Sca-cooks] Serving stuff over rice

My standard way of serving various period Islamic dishes is on top of rice.
Urtatim recently suggested to me that that might be wrong, historically
speaking. Checking the obvious sources, I cannot find any period reference
to food being served that way. The closest I can come is a recipe where you
cook rice in milk and then put meat on it and serve it--but most rice
recipes are considerably more elaborate than that and I didn't find anything
along the lines of "and serve it over rice."

Does anyone here have evidence for or against the claim that that was how it
was served?

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David Friedman
www.daviddfriedman.com
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/

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