Buttered Semolina and Nut Pudding

Anatolian villagers assure me that this rich, earthy pudding, which they call irmik helvasī, is the best thing to happen to most of them all winter.

I picked the recipe up from the grandmother of a Turkish friend, Murat Kemaloğlu, and assumed a feeling of proprietorship over it, particularly since it was one of the very first recipes I had published. I see now, however, that it bears an uncanny resemblance to the basbousa bil loz in