7 Dates Recipes From 6 Cuisines.

Concentrated sugar with a caramel and toffee depth that no refined sweetener matches, and the traditional food for breaking the fast across the Muslim world. Soft Medjool dates are for eating and stuffing; drier Deglet Nour types chop cleanly into pastries, tagines and grain dishes. Date syrup and paste stand in for sugar in Levantine and Iraqi sweets. Keep them airtight; the white bloom that appears on the skin is crystallized sugar, not mould.

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