Hulluah (Wheat Milk Sweet)

Ingredients

• one and a half pounds of roughly ground wheat
• three pounds of water
• one and a half pounds of sugar
• six cardamines
• six sticks of cinnamon
• eight ounces of boiling ghee
• some pistachio nuts
• some sultana raisins

Method

1. 1

   Wash the wheat and steep in water for twelve hours.

2. 2

   Strain through muslin, pressing out the liquid.

3. 3

   Stir in sugar until thickened.

4. 4

   Fry cardamines and cinnamon in ghee, then mix into the thickened sugar with pistachios and raisins.

5. 5

   Cook until thick again, pour into an oiled dish, and cut into strips.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hulluah. (Wheat Milk Sweet). Wash one and a half pounds of roughly ground wheat, and steep in three pounds of water for twelve hours. When quite soft strain through fine muslin, pressing all the good out. In the liquid stir in one and a half pounds of sugar ; stir till it thickens with the boiling. Now put in six cardamines, six sticks of cinnamon, and a good 243 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS pinch of saffron into eight ounces of boiling ghee and fry for three minutes, and stir it into the thickened sugar along with some pistachio nuts

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