Iraqi Biscotti

Writing in the thirteenth century, botanist Ibn al-Bayter mentions a variety of ka’k called baqsamaat (). He also calls it khubz Rumi (Byzantine bread), and comments that in the western Islamic region people call it basmaat. A recipe in Ibn al-‘Adeem’s thirteenth-century Al-Wusla ila ‘l-Habeeb makes it quite clear that baqsamaat<