Manzul
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| Kind | Sweet |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Resin |
Manzul is an Egyptian sweet made with hashish. Egypt's first delegate to the Second Opium Conference at Geneva, Mohamed El Guindy, named it in December 1924 among the sweets and confectionery made in Egypt from a paste of cannabis resin mixed with sugar and cooked with butter and aromatic substances. The others he named were maagun and garawish.[1]: 133
In R. J. Bouquet's account of 1950 in the Bulletin on Narcotics, the manzul type of sweet was made from about 10 per cent hashish mixed with sesame oil, often with cocoa butter added. The mixture was worked into a thick paste with powdered chocolate and crushed spices and condiments. Which ones went in depended, Bouquet wrote, on the social standing of the buyer: some recipes used almonds, pistachios, walnuts, hazelnuts and pine seeds, others nutmeg, ginger, pepper, cloves and cinnamon, others the seeds of celery, onion, garden cress and quince. He noted that most of these had a reputation as aphrodisiacs in Arab medicine. The paste was kneaded by hand, flattened and cut into discs 1 cm thick and 3 cm across, to be chewed slowly.[2]
Bouquet compared it with the helwa (haloua, heloua), sweetmeats of similar composition with a large sale around the Mediterranean, which he called harmless. Hashish, opium, nux vomica or cantharides were sometimes added to them extemporaneously.[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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bouquet, R. J. (1950). "Cannabis". Bulletin on Narcotics (4). United Nations: 14–30.