Roti Nan (Sweet Cake)

Ingredients

• twenty-four ounces of fine flour
• two ounces almonds
• two ounces pistachio nuts
• two ounces raisins
• one pound of milk
• two ounces sugar
• a little saffron
• a little musk
• a little cardamoms
• a little butter (ghi)

Method

1. 1

   Boil flour with milk until thick, divide into parts.

2. 2

   Mix nuts, raisins, boiled milk, and sugar, fry until browned.

3. 3

   Roll dough into cakes, fill with mixture, stack, and bake until browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 152. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Roti Nan. (Sweet Cake.) Take twenty-four ounces of fine flour, and boil with milk until it becomes thick like dough, after which divide the boiled dough into five parts, and place them on a table. Take two ounces almonds, two ounces pistachio nuts, two ounces raisins, and one pound of milk boiled till it is reduced to four ounces, two ounces sugar, and mix these with a little butter (ghi), and fry till the mixture is browned. Pound the mix- ture until it is divided into little particles or pellets. Then mix the whole and add to this a little saffron

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