Sesame Seed, Almond, and Honey Cone

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Cuisine: Moroccan/Algerian/Tunisian | Course Type: Desserts

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Recipe Review

I scaled this down to 1/4 size, and am glad.

I've triple checked my calculations - all OK - so it must be the recipe's fault that this produces a very dry pale sand pile that barely resembled this picture in the book.

I kept adding more butter and more honey, hoping it would come together. I managed to pack it into a cone for the picture, but it completely crumbled when I cut it.

I was intrigued by this recipe because the flour was toasted! I might have had too light a touch - I let it go about 5 or 6 minutes before adding the sesame seeds. Others in the house kept shouting that it smelled like something was burning, so I don't think I could have gotten it much darker without total disaster.

Despite the texture issues, the flavor of the sesame with almond is very nice. The very small amount of nutmeg and cinnamon is extremely subtle. I added a 1/4 tsp sea salt, and that helped accentuate the flavor. I will use it on my oatmeal for breakfast.

I would be very interested to know if the dessert pictured is actually the same as the recipe. Any thoughts on this, fellow cookbookers?

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Comments

Zosia - 23rd March 2012
I think there's a problem with the flour:butter ratio in this recipe.....all of the others I've seen are at least 2:1, if not more, which would put the butter requirement for this recipe at 1/2lb, not 6 tbsp.

I suspect that a lot of the photos in this book, beautiful though they are, are not actual representations of the recipes, especially in the desserts chapter. I haven't seen a homemade sfuf nearly this dark...... apparently home cooks in Morocco can take their flour to a commercial oven to be toasted (no burnt smell in the home), which may account for the dark colour in the photo.

Queezle_Sister - 23rd March 2012
An incorrect butter:flour recipe would explain a lot! And when I spent a week in the Medina in Marrakech, I was fascinated by the many small community ovens (nicely depicted in the book). I'd see women carrying their loaves, wrapped in towels that were specific to the family.

Peckish Sister - 23rd March 2012
I also see inconsistencies in the photos for the salads. The photo of a salad with green peppers will have no green peppers in the photo!

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