[Sca-cooks] Samidh Flour?

[Johnna Holloway]

Possibly Mentioned in
New Flavors for the Oldest Recipes 
November/December 2012
... For example, one of the untranslated ingredients used in almost every recipe is samidu. Bottéro assumed that it was in the allium family, which includes onions, garlic, chives and leeks.  Looking to modern languages, however, I found that in Hebrew and Syrian,  semida means “fine meal” and, in Greek, semidalis is used to denote “the finest flour.” According to the University of Chicago’s Assyrian Dictionary, semidu is also defined as semolina. One ingredient identified; 

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201206/new.flavors.for.the.oldest.recipes.htm

Johnnae