[Sca-cooks] Side Dishes for al-Warraq

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Trying to catch up...

Bear questioned the number of bread recipes in al-Warraq, since he hasn't seen them. They are on p. 118-122 of Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyâr al-Warrâq's Tenth Century Cookbook
-- Making khubz (flat bread) and ruqāq (very thin bread)
-- A recipe for Khubz al-ma' al-Nabati (Nabatean water bread)
-- A recipe for bread called khubz al-qanani (bottle bread)
-- Making khuybz ma'ruk (pressed and rubbed bread)
-- Making barazidhaj (fine white bread, thin and flat in shape, but not as thin as the paper-thin ruqāq bread. It is usually leavened with bakers' borax)
-- Making ruqāq (thin breads): Two kinds of ruqāq are made: labiq, and jarmazaj. The first variety os small and neatly shaped into perfect rounds flattened into extreme thinness. Jarmazaj is larger.
-- Making bread of Abu Hamza

That is 9 recipes. A few other breads, including bread made of rice (which he says is bloating), are mentioned in his introduction to the chapter.

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