From bludvigs@extern.uio.noTue Mar 5 18:28:13 1996 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:28:12 +0100 (MET) From: B|rre Ludvigsen To: borrelm Subject: Ma@moul b-tamir (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 02 JAN 1996 15:21:21 +0100 From: Alaa Dakroub Newgroups: soc.culture.lebanon Subject: Ma@moul b-tamir Here is a recipe for ma@moul btamir that I recently tried and it seems to work :-). [I tried it out of memory so that is why I use the approximation word many times ;) ] Ingredients (for approx : 45 little pieces) (Maybe a good idea is to try with 1/2 or 1/4 of the ingredients ;) 1 Kg of wheat flour. 500 g of butter 1 Kg of dates 8 tea spoons of orange flower water (arabic ma' l-zaher, French Eau de fleur d'oranger) Powder sugar. Remove dates' hearts then cut them, (like each date into 6 or 8 pieces) put them into a casserole and add about 15 normal spoons (French: cuillere de soupe) of water, cook them for about 15 mn on a low fire while stirring and trying to smash the pieces in order to have a kind of a homogeneous dough. Then let them cool. Meanwhile cut the butter into small cubes and add them to the flour then rub them together till they look like little bread pieces (in French comme la mie de pain ;-). Put the flower water into a small pot and add to it about 8 to 10 normal spoons of water, mix then add the mixture to the flour and butter while trying to get the liquid homogeneously into the dough (you can use a knife or a fork to get the liquid inside). Then rub until you obtain a homogeneous dough. Keep it rest for half an hour or 40 minutes while covering it with a tissue. Take a part of the dough and make a cylinder out of it, approx 3 cm of diameter, then cut the cylinder into equal pieces of 2 cm approx of thickness. Take each of the pieces and make a ball out of it then make a hole in it with your thumb while holding it in the other hand. Continue rolling it around your thumb to shape it like a an arabic coffee cup. Then fill it with about 1 1/2 tea spoon of dates, close and reshape. Continue until the end of the dough or the dates ;-). You can decorate the pieces with a fork, by doing some drawing on them. If you have the a wood "shaper" (I don't know the word in English, arabic: qAlib). Then you can avoid the thumb part and maybe you'll have better decoration on your ma@mouls ;-)). warm the oven to 180 C approx, butter an oven "plateau" place the ma@mouls and cook them for about 25 to 30 min (the dough becomes hard and they start to have a little bit of red color). After taking them out, powder them with the powder sugar, then let them cool. Voila, SaHtein and kil @am w into bkheir ... /Alaa -- ___________________________________________________________________ Rien n'est plus dangeureux que la haine organisée, et le fanatisme réligieux en est une. -BHL -------------------------------------------------------------------