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Hi: Abdulameer al-Dafar says that: "In southern Iraq, besides dry the dates and make syrup...people do roast dates with fat to make seedless blocks; boil fresh dates,at the *khalal* stage when they are still yellow, until they become brown and hard,then dry them in the shadow and store them in woven baskets to be used in the winter; and smash kinds of hard-dates, mix them with sesame oil and store it in metal or plastic containers. I have observed and participated in these activities." Best, Kathy On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Mennat-Allah El Dorry <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The people toasting the dates always either explicitly said they were > doing this for storability, or implied it. This practice could > have started for another reason, perhaps to a specific variety as Ralph > Hancock mentioned in his email to this thread, but this knowledge was lost > along the years, and it became related to storage in people's minds. > I have only seen this done with ripened red zagloul dates. > > Thanks to all, > > Menna > > Am Montag, 1. September 2014 schrieb Beatrice Hopkinson : > >> It could be that the dates were not fully ripe but still yellow needed >> heating to further ripen them before eating. When fully ripe there is a >> lot of sugar in dates so presumably this keeps them for quite a time, and >> presumably this is not true of dates that have not ripened sufficiently to >> develop sugar. The growing of dates apparently requires extreme dry heat >> in a non-humid atmosphere, in which case they could grow rotten. Date >> palms do require water, but only at the roots, so care is taken to keep the >> dates above dry. >> >> Bea >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH list, click the following link: >> >> http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM1NTA3IE0uZWxkb3JyeUBHTUFJTC5DT00gQU5DSUVOVC1GT09ELVRFQ0ggIJN4XhFd1Y6n&c=SIGNOFF >> > > > -- > Mennat-Allah El Dorry, MA > Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie > Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster > > "The future of Egypt is not just political reforms, but attitude reforms" > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH list, click the following link: > > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM1NTA4IEthdGhlcnluLlR3aXNzQFNUT05ZQlJPT0suRURVIEFOQ0lFTlQtRk9PRC1URUNIIIh7A%2FBm5WhX&c=SIGNOFF > > -- Katheryn C. Twiss Assoc. Prof.: Director, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences (IDPAS) Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364 [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH list, click the following link: https://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH