Pomegranate and Walnut Stew

As we have seen in the Introduction, a love for the sour and the sweet-sour goes back to ancient times. To sour stews, the ancients added vinegar, and sometimes sour fruits such as green plums and apricots. As for the sweet, they added honey. During the Abbasid era this stew category was fully exploited using all kinds of sour vegetables and fruits available at the time. Stews soured with rumman (pomegranate) were called rummaniyyat. The same stew was sometimes given the exoti