Description
- Ma'amoul is a shortbread cookie, filled with either dates, walnuts or pistaschios. It has a very specific shape, and to achieve that shape, there are special molds used throughout the Middle East to make and shape these delicious cookies.
- Hand Carved in Syria from untreated unfinished Olive Wood
- Each mold is hand carved, so no two are exactly the same.
- Wash well and oil thoroughly before the first time you use your Ma'amoul.
- We purchased these ma'amoul molds from a spice seller in the Market in Nazareth. It has become difficult to get these items, due to the unrest in Syria where they are made.
Ma'amoul is truly a cookie that Bridges Cultures. Why? Because this is a traditional cookie that has its place with all of the many religions found throughout the Middle East. Muslims eat them during Ramadan - they fast all day, and then end their nightly feast with this sweet. Christians serve them traditionally at Easter. Jews eat the Date variety for Rosh Hashana (the New Year) and the other varieties at Purim. One cookie - so many traditions!
