Sweet delights from a thousand and one nights : the story of traditional Arab sweets / Habeeb Salloum, Muna Salloum, Leila Salloum Elias.

By: Salloum, Habeeb [author.]Contributor(s): Salloum, Muna [author.] | Elias, Leila Salloum [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2013Description: xviii, 254 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780764641; 1780764642Subject(s): Confectionery -- Arab countries -- History | Cooking, Arab | Cooking, Medieval -- Arab countries | Confectionery | Cooking, Arab | Cooking, Medieval | Arab countries | Süßigkeit | OrientGenre/Form: Cookbooks | History. | Cookbooks.DDC classification: 641.8609174927 LOC classification: TX783 | .S25 2013
Contents:
Basic recipes -- Pastries -- Cookies -- Cakes and pies -- Candies -- Puddings and other sweet delights.
Summary: "Bringing together tenth- to fourteenth-century Arabic texts, the authors retrace the history of these sweet dishes, reviving the original recipes and following their development and influence over the centuries into non-Arabic speaking lands. Honey, dates, figs and pomegranates are just a few ingredients featured in this exquisite selection of mouth-watering desserts which have been modernized for cooks to try at home, all woven together with medieval poems and stories"--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.

"Bringing together tenth- to fourteenth-century Arabic texts, the authors retrace the history of these sweet dishes, reviving the original recipes and following their development and influence over the centuries into non-Arabic speaking lands. Honey, dates, figs and pomegranates are just a few ingredients featured in this exquisite selection of mouth-watering desserts which have been modernized for cooks to try at home, all woven together with medieval poems and stories"--Publisher's website.

Basic recipes -- Pastries -- Cookies -- Cakes and pies -- Candies -- Puddings and other sweet delights.

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