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Maamoul

Ma’amoul are the holiday cookie par excellence in this part of the world; every family has the designated maamoul maker and in mine we luckily had a grandmother who would make them and decorate them by hand.  I have already posted both recipes and a video-clip on how to make them. They are easy just time-consuming; [...]
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Fig jam cookie roll

Today is Valentine’s day.  Hence this cookie, a combination of rugelah and maamool of sorts. I used a recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum’s book Rose’sChristmas Cookies and given it a Lebanese touch by stuffing it with fig jam, walnuts, anise and sesame. The richness of cream cheese in the dough and fig jam and walnut [...]
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