Recipe - Egyptian Haroset

1 pound Raisins
8 ounce Pitted dates
2 cup Water
One fourth cup Sugar
One fourth cup Chopped walnuts or pecans

Cover raisins and dates with water; let stand 1 hr. Add the sugar and blend
or foodprocess until roughly chopped. Transfer to a heavy saucepan and
simmer 20 min or until fruits are cooked and water is absorbed. When cool,
stir in chopped nuts.

Makes 4 cups.

NOTES : _The Jewish Holday Kitchen_, Joan Nathan. Schocken Books, New York:
1988.

Recipe by: Joan Nathan Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #536 by "Master Harper
Gaellon" gaellon@inch.com on Mar 22, 1997