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KUMMAS
Recipe 1
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
5 tbs. shortening
1 cup Cream of Wheat (or Farina)
1 cup Wheat flour
1/4 tsp. each of powdered cardamom, nutmeg and mace
1 tsp. caraway seeds
1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 tbs. slivered almonds
cup plain yogurt
1/2 cup milk
Mix thoroughly eggs, shortening and sugar in a 2 quart bowl. Then
add all dry ingredients to this mixture and blend well. Then add
yogurt and milk, and smooth the mixture into a 9" x 13" baking dish
and let stand for 3 hours at room temperature. Then bake in 350- F
preheated oven for one hour.
Cool slightly before cutting into pieces.
Kumas Recipe 2
This is a traditional Parsi cake eaten with afternoon tea
Ingredients:
1 Cup Semolina (Ravo, Soji, Farina)
1 Cup All
Purpose Flour
3/4 Cup Sugar
3 Eggs
3/4 lb Butter
2/3 Cup
Yogurt(500grms.)
1 Tsp.Caraway seeds
Cardamon powder
1 Tbls Vanila Ess.
11/2 Tsp Baking powder
2/3 Cup Mixed Peel
Pistachios and Almonds
salt to taste
Directions:
Put butter and sugar in a deep pan and
briskly stir to lighten
Add eggs one by one and continue stirring till sugar
is melted
Add semolina to mixture and blend well
Add all-purpose flour and
continue mixing
Add vanilla to mixture
Add Yogurt and mix well
Add
baking powder,and dry ingredients to mixture and blend well
Pour mixture in
baking pan and bake for approx. 1 hour at 350
It is really great if made with Toddy or fermented coconut water
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