Claudia Roden’s Bimuelos de Hanukkah

This is the special Hanukkah food of the Jews of Turkey, Greece and the Arab world, fritters bathed in syrup, ‘variously called,’ says Claudia Roden, ‘lokma, loukmades, aweimat, zalabia (by us in Egypt) and bimuelos in Ladino,’ which is the Sephardic vernacular, based on Spanish, and equivalent to the Yiddish language of the Ashkenazi Jews. In Ladino, they say Hanukkah is ‘el buen dia a la tri