Garawish
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| Kind | Sweet |
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| Part of the plant | Resin |
Garawish is an Egyptian hard sweet made with hashish. Egypt's first delegate to the Second Opium Conference at Geneva, Mohamed El Guindy, named it in December 1924, with manzul and maagun, among the sweets and confectionery made in Egypt from a paste of cannabis resin mixed with sugar and cooked with butter and aromatic substances.[1]: 133
The garawish type in R. J. Bouquet's account of 1950 in the Bulletin on Narcotics is a paste that cracks between the teeth. Hashish powder was mixed with well-cooked syrup, sometimes with opium and Datura stramonium, and scented with essences and spices such as vanilla, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon. The mixture was thickened over a gentle fire and poured onto an oiled marble slab, where it set as it cooled and was cut up. Kinds of barley sugar made in a similar way were once sold in Tunis.[2]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 League of Nations (August 1925). Records of the Second Opium Conference, Geneva, November 17th, 1924 – February 19th, 1925. Volume I: Plenary Meetings, Text of the Debates. Geneva: League of Nations. C.760.M.260.1924.XI – via Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics.
- ↑ Bouquet, R. J. (1950). "Cannabis". Bulletin on Narcotics (4). United Nations: 14–30.