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Simmer the drained barley or wheat in plenty of fresh water for about 1 hour, or until the grain is very tender.
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Barley takes 2030 minutes, wheat 12 hours.
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Drain, and pour into a large serving bowl or individual bowls.
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Boil the sugar with the milk until the sugar has dissolved.
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Stir in the flower water.
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Pour over the grain, and serve, hot or cold, garnished with the nuts and with raisins if you like, and dusted with cinnamon.
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The Turkish asure, prepared on the first day of Moharram, is an extraordinary dish in the number of its ingredients.
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In Turkey it also commemorates Noahs salvation from the Flood.
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According to legend, Noah made asure when the Flood subsided from everything that remained of foodstuffs at the bottom of sacks.
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The usual ingredients today are chickpeas, haricot beans, fava beans, whole wheat, black and golden raisins, dried figs, dried apricots, dates, hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, and pomegranate seeds.
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Asure is a pudding with a creamy base of milk and sugar thickened with cornstarch and flavored with rose water and cinnamon.
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I have eaten it, but I have never made it myself.
