Sounds like HOECAKES to me, , , , ,
Bread cooked on a hoe over a charcoal fire.???

Ron C.
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On 05 Jan 2004 10:10:06 -0500, Allan Adler >
wrote:

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>I'm enjoying Inea BUSHNAQ's book, Arab Folktales, published by Pantheon
>Books, 1986. On p.47, she describes bread being cooked in the following
>manner by a member of a raiding party: "He mixed flour with water, enough
>to feed a whole band that is hungry and worn. He buried the flat dough in
>hot ashes and covered it with sand. Then he waited."
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>I think that if I tried to do this, I would wind up eating a lot of sand
>and ashes. Does someone know more precise instructions for this method of
>baking bread?
>
>Ignorantly,
>Allan Adler

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