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The page treats dawamesk (dawamesc), the sweet paste of cannabis in fat eaten by the Hôtel Pimodan circle in Paris in the 1840s, and the dawamesk type of electuary in Bouquet (1950). Majoun has its own page.
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- Gautier (1846), Le Club des Hachichins, Revue des Deux Mondes 13, pp. 520–535 (Wikisource transcription): the green paste or jam handed out before dinner. The 1846 text does not use the word dawamesk; it calls the paste hachich.
- Gautier (1868), notice "Charles Baudelaire" in Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire I (Michel Lévy), pp. 58–59 (Wikisource): the circle met at the Hôtel Pimodan "pour prendre le dawamesk"; these are the sessions he described in the Revue des Deux Mondes; dawamesk is "une décoction de cannabis indica, mêlée à un corps gras, à du miel et à des pistaches"; the Balzac evening. This identifies the 1846 paste as dawamesk, which is why first_recorded is 1846.
- Baudelaire, Le Poème du haschisch, ch. II, in Œuvres complètes IV (Michel Lévy, 1869), pp. 168–169 (Wikisource): the fatty extract and the dawamesk recipe. The first edition of Les Paradis artificiels (1860) was not the text used.
- Bouquet (1950), Bulletin on Narcotics (UNODC web edition, no page numbers): the dawamesk type, and Charnot's Moroccan "Majoun-Dawamesk type" formula, which Majoun gives in full.
- Moreau (1845) and Guba (2021), which France and Hashish cite for Moreau supplying the paste and for the Paris pharmacies' dawamesk, are not cited on this page; the statements built on them stay on those pages.
Name
- Gautier and Baudelaire spell it dawamesk; dawamesc is the spelling of the pharmacy literature quoted on Hashish. None of the sources cited gives an etymology.
Is it cannabis?
- Baudelaire makes it from the tops of the fresh hemp plant boiled in butter; Gautier (1868) from cannabis indica; Bouquet from cannabis tops or hashish powder.
Kind and plant part
- Sweet. Flower (the tops) and resin (Bouquet's hashish powder).
- Country: France, where the 19th-century accounts place it. Baudelaire attributes the method to "les Arabes" without naming a country, so no other country is entered.
- Still made: not known from the sources cited.
Wikipedia
- Wikipedia's Dawamesc is a two-sentence stub (Algeria; an ingredient list from Regan 2012; Moreau). The page does not use its framing, its ingredient list or its sequence.