Note 247 — ABDULLAH[232] THE FISHERMAN AND ABDULLAH THE MERMAN.

Arab. “Kaff Shurayk” applied to a single bun. The Shurayk is a bunn, an oblong cake about the size of a man’s hand (hence the term “Kaff” = palm) with two long cuts and sundry oblique crosscuts, made of leavened dough, glazed with egg and Samn (clarified butter) and flavoured with spices (cinnamon, curcuma, artemisia and prunes mahalab), and with aromatic seeds, (Ríhat al-’ajin) of which Lane (iii. 641) specifies aniseed, nigella, absinthium, (Artemisia arborescens) and Káfúrah (A. camphorata Monspeliensis) etc. The Shurayk is given to the poor when visiting the tombs and on certain fêtes.