This recipe was included in a Kansas City Star article ( Jan 21, 2024) about a cookie found in a 1300 year old tomb in China.
The headline of the article was
“This simple 1300-year-old ancient tomb cookie recipe blew me away”
A quote from the article said:
“ After seeing a picture online of the cookies, Nadeem Ahmad, the founder of Eran ud Turan, a living history group based in the United Kingdom, took it upon himself to reverse-engineer the ancient dessert for the modern-day cookie lover. Ahmad says he decided on grapes and apricot jam since the Turpan basin is still famed for its grapes and apricots hail from Central Asia and China.”
A picture of the ingredients shows the flour to be White Lily which is a low gluten flour. I substituted cake flour.
I read once, quite a while ago, that wheat is grown in the northern part of China. Google tells me that Turpan is in a region where winter and spring wheat is grown. Recipe is included in the blog address below
When Charlie saw I was busy with this he made Hamburger Helper and that was supper. The cookies will be dessert.
PS I added a tsp. of salt to the recipe and used red grapes. I haven't seen purple grapes in the store for a long time and they weren't seedless.
