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Time Magazine announced it’s person of the year – it’s YOU! It’s me! Here is what they had to say:
TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: You
NEW YORK (Dec. 16) – Congratulations! You are the Time magazine “Person of the Year.”
The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals _ citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it. The winners this year were anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.
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I have never made them, in any variation, but I understood m3amoul to be a generic term (literally meaning “worked” or “labored”, although the ones I usually find (and eat, quickly) are date filled (though now that I am thinking of this, I realize that mamoul is also the name for a type of date.
Deciding to exchange my opinions for someone else’s expertise, I found this on gourmetsleuth.com:
Mamoul, maamoul, mamool (Lebanese Filled Cookies)
Mamoul are Middle Eastern cookies served typically for special holidays such as Pascha. The cookies have three traditional fillings including walnut, pistachio and date. Each is formed in a specific designed wooden mold. The design on the cookie lets you know what the filling is inside.
To make the cookie the mold is floured, then round, filled, balls of dough are packed into the mold. The mold is rapped on the work surface to remove the cookie. Cookies are then baked, cooled and coated in powdered (confectioner’s) sugar.
We have not found any historical reference yet but the recipe and the mold are very similar to Chinese moon cakes.
(http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/mamoul.htm)
Snickering . . . Little Diamond, I think you clicked on the wrong blog entry. . .
however, when I made Mamoul with my friend, we didn’t use molds. We made the dough, rolled it with our hands, rolled date filling, and did it all by hand. I don’t believe all Mamoul are molded. The ones I saw yesterday may have had a walnut filling, but from the outside, they looked just like russian teacakes – I shoulda bought them to see!
gratz Intlxpatr as well!!
oops, sorry. I am so, so jet lagged and was clearly the worse for wear last night :-).