Noah’s Pudding

Name: Noah’s Pudding
Yield: serves 6-8
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons pine kernels; seeds from 1 large pomegranate; 10 oz sugar; 1 teaspoon rose-water; 2 oz whole blanched almonds; 2 oz seedless raisins; 2 oz dried apricots; 2 oz chopped hazelnuts; 3½ pints water plus soaking waters; 2 oz dried figs; 3 oz dry chickpeas; 3 oz dry white beans; 9 oz whole grains of wheat

Preparation info

serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

One version of a popular Turkish pudding said to have been prepared on the Ark to use up remaining provisions. The wheat – available in most good health-food stores – makes the pudding set into a loose jelly when it is puréed.

Ingredients

9 oz whole grains of wheat
3 oz dry chickpeas
3 o

Europe
Turkey
Dessert
Vegan
October

Method

Soak the wheat, chickpeas and white beans overnight, well covered with cold water, in separate bowls. Strain each and discard the soaking water.

In a large pan, boil the soaked wheat in 3½ pints of fresh water for 3 hours. Leave the wheat in the water that remains. Separately, in two other pans, boil the chickpeas and white beans until tender. Strain, but keep back the liquid in case yo