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Amardeen

  Just what is amardeen? For a lot of us who grew up in the Near East, it was an after-school treat; an extra-tangy, intensely flavored apricot leather that we would suck on for as long as possible (to make the pleasure last). It is a large sheet of apricot paste made from apricots that [...]
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Amardeen Bars (Apricot bars)

If you have grown up in the Middle East, then amardeen was most likely in your pantry; an apricot paste sold in large one-pound sheets, it has an intense, tangy and sweet apricot flavor. The apricots are from a region in Syria near Damascus. Kids in the Middle-East eat it as a snack, a little [...]
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Amardeen drink

This is a traditional drink during Ramadan; by the way, Ramadan Kareem to all! Amardeen is the name given to a large sheet of apricot paste; the apricots and the sheets are from Syria; amardeen has a tangy, sweet and intense apricot flavor. It is diluted in water, made into a drink or a pudding [...]
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