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Originally Posted by Geo
Come on Sharon you know you want to, Ben can be schooled by Jim and Jan with Chaz
I will even let you cook me some Camel thighs 
Geo |
I didn't have any camel thigh recipes, so got rather excited when I saw this recipe idea:
The quotations from the past
Brother Jacopo d'Acqui, who was the first biographer of Marco Polo and contemporary to him, describes the astounding pistachio dishes tasted by the young Venetian traveler during his marvelous travel towards the distant China.
«Reports of young camel's thighs stuffed with duck, stuffed again with minced pork meat, pistachios, raisins, pine-seeds and spices.
Of a soft and trembling cream, called balesh, made with flour, whipped cream and honey, delicately seasoned with pistachio oil or with a precious pastry of Sheriye, which is a kind of pasta like our fettuccine, but cooked in cream with pistachios and very, very small bits of gold and silver, so thin that had to be eaten with the rest of the sweet.
In some areas of Sicily it was appreciated an infusion of the fresh bark of the tree, and it was believed that the resin of the trunk could cure the inguinal hernia, but only if used during the recitations of appropriated magic formulas».