Shire 09 Food
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- Alya
- Rendered fat from a sheep's tail.
- Barm
- Liquid yeast skimmed from the surface of a fermented liquor such as beer.
- Batarekh
- Pressed, dried and salted roe of the grey mullet.
- Bedoukhia
- Large, dark green water-melon.
- Bouza
- A potent beer made in the sudan.
- Dom
- Palm tree bearing hard, shiny, brown nuts.
- Dukkah
- A mixture of coarsely ground nuts, spices, dried herbs and salt, sprinkled over bread and eaten as a snack or appetiser.
- Eish shami
- Arab bread, like pitta bread, sometimes made with a cental depression into which an egg is cracked before baking.
- Emmer
- Primitive form of wheat.
- Felafel
- Fried rissoles of mashed beans or chick-peas with onion, garlic, cumin and fresh corriander.
- Ferique
- A stew made with a chicken, a calf's foot, eggs in their shells and whole-grain wheat.
- Ful medames
- National Egyptian dish of stewed brown beans served with garlic, onion, oil and cumin.
- Gebna beida
- Firm white cheese made from pressed, salted curds.
- Hummus
- pureed chick-peas with sesame oil.
- Jujube
- Orange-red, cherry sized fruit of the Christ's thorn tree.
- Labna
- Soft cream cheese made by straining salted yoghurt through a cloth.
- Lupine
- Bitter-tasting bean of the lupin family.
- Magur
- Large metal bread-mixing vessel.
- Malt
- Barley grains that have been allowed to sprout before being dried in hot air.
- Meloukhia
- Plant of the hemp family, picked like spinich and used to make a glutinous soup of the same name.
- Mezze
- A small meal in the form of snacks, hors d'oeuvres or side dishes, often served with drinks.
- Nabk
- Orange-red, cherry sized fruit of the Christ's thorn tree.
- Natron
- Naturally occuring crystalline mixture of sodium-carbonate and sodium bicarbonate with varying degrees of impurity in the form of sodium chloride and sodium sulphate.
- Pancheon
- Traditional English bread-making crock, shaped like a flaring flower pot, glazed on the inner surface only.
- Parch
- To dry out dampened grain, in the sun or by light roasting, in order to facilitate milling.
- Qras samak
- Fishcakes made with pounded fish, cracked wheat, fresh corriander and seasoning.
- Samna
- Clarified butter or butter oil, made by straining off impurities, including salt, from melted butter.
- Ta'amia
- Fried rissoles of mashed beans or chick-peas with onion, garlic, cumin and fresh corriander.
- Temper
- (in baking): To create a temporary non-stick surface in earthenware bread moulds by greasing and heating several times.
- Tirmiss
- Bitter-tasting bean of the lupin family.