Hey...
we changed blog layout again.
Cool. It's not as clunky as before.
Anyway, while my first campaign is wrapping up with my zeon comrades *sniffle* I started downloading a couple series and decided, fuck it- I'm going to make ghoriba, or at least something similar.
Now... I have a recipe.
And I messed with it.
*shrugs*
Instead of confectioners sugar, I used standard.
Instead of orange water, I used a few drops of grenadine, instead of peanut oil I just used more clarified butter
instead of cardamom I used about 1/2 a tablespoon of cinnamon and about 5 clove bulbs.
... I think that's about all I did to it.
So-
5 tablespoons clarified butter (but really... 3 and a half is probably overkill)
1 1/2 cups ap flour
5 tbs sugar
cinnamon and clove as per above
2 tbs water
10 drops of grenadine
1/3 cup almond pulp solids from strained almond milk. (or 1/3 cup chopped almonds >>)
mix by hand.
My clarified butter was so fresh it was still warm
so the cookies wound up with this nice toasted butter flavor.
I'm sure I lost some almond impact using rehashes, but my almond pulp is still very tasty, also... the flavors are not the original, but rather that of a spiced short bread.
I should've put almond slices on top of the cookiedough... oh well.
Make about inch diameter 1/2 inch thickness rounds.
Bake on a sheet in a 350 preheated oven for 10-15 minutes.
Let cool.
Enjoy.
Traditional ghoriba is nothing like this.
Well... it kinda is.
And the batter is significantly dryer since the almonds are not in a pulp state.
Might post the real thing after some ingredients are acquired and a new attempt is made.
More iron chef.
My downloads are only at 12%.
