Cleopatra's Dulcis Coccora: Sweet Honey Balls Recipe
18 Apr 2012
Ingredients
All purpose flour: 200 g
Water: 100 g
Dried fruit: 200 g
Honey: As needed
Fruit: 300 g
Cleopatra's dulcis coccora is an ancient Egyptian food made as sweet honey balls similar to loukoumades. Discover the recipe of this ancient Egyptian food!
Method
01.
Start mixing the flour and water and adding dried figs and walnuts.
02.
Shape the mixture into little balls to cook and caramelize in the boiling honey.
03.
Let the dulcis cool and serve them adorned with pomegranate seeds or slices of your preferred fruit.
Coccora were edible seeds from Mediterranean plants that, during antiquity, were added to sweets. Today they may be substituted with pomegranate seeds or slices of fruit.
This recipe is taken from the book "Tacuinum dè Eccellentissimi", by Alex Revelli Sorini and Susanna Cutini ali&no publisher
