Ḥammāḍiyya (Sour Citron Meat Stew)

Ingredients

• meat
• salt
• dried coriander
• ginger
• pepper
• cloves
• cinnamon
• red meat
• citron
• verjuice
• sweet almonds
• sugar
• rosewater

Instructions

1. Cut meat into medium pieces, leave in the pot with water to cover and a little salt, and boil.
2. Add a linen bundle of dried coriander, ginger, pepper, and cloves finely pounded, plus pieces of cinnamon.
3. Pound red meat with spices, form into kebabs, add after one boil; when cooked, remove the spice bundle.
4. Press seeded sour citron by hand, mix with about a quarter its measure of verjuice, add to the meat, and boil an hour.
5. Add sweet peeled almonds pounded fine and enriched with water; sweeten with sugar or jullāb.
6. Leave to settle, sprinkle rosewater, wipe sides, and remove.