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Submission Number: 37
Submission ID: 43
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Created: Wed, 03/22/2023 - 13:02
Completed: Wed, 03/22/2023 - 13:05
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General Info
Rob
Category
Frutta fresca, secca e derivati
Geographic area: Isole Kerkenna, Tunisia
Latitude: 34.7219581
Longitude: 11.156696
Location: 34.721958,11.156696
Formatted Address: Isole Kerkenna, Tunisia
State/Province: Governatorato di Sfax
Country: Tunisia
Country Code: TN
Product description
Rob or date syrup or date molasses is a thick brown, very sweet fruit syrup extracted from dates. It tastes very sweet and is a natural excellent sweetener. Rob is good for making cakes, biscuits, bread, muffins, fruit bars and desserts.
Rob has been used in natural medicine for a very long time thanks to its many benefits. It helps regain energy quickly and it’s a basic element in detox diet cures thanks to its important contribution of trace elements. It has a memory stimulant effect and can improves the vitality of the nervous system. It reduces cholesterol levels and it is very effective against anemia.
Rob is consumed directly or used as an ingredient in various culinary preparations such as hawwar (mixed powder of roasted sorghum, coriander, fenugreek, wheat, beans and dried orange peel), bsissa and kerkennian breads. Date syrup is nowadays one of the oldest sweeteners available.
Farmers used to keep Rob for their self-consumption and eventually sell a small quantity on demand. Today, the marketing of rob as a local product is becoming increasingly important. It is currently in demand both locally and regionally.
It has been around for thousands of years. Some Ancient cuneiform manuscripts collected from Mesopotamia mention the syrup as the primary sweetener of that time. The word “honey”, in the bible, can be translated from the Hebrew to describe honey from a bee and a fruit honey and is commonly referred to as “date honey” in commentaries. Since most of the date palms of the archipelago come from seeds, it’s difficult to speak about a variety and there is a huge difference in taste of the fruits of those palms and date honey made from them. The originality of Kerkennah rob date is that it is made from different type of dates, characterized by a high level of humidity.
Kerkennian women still conserve traditional rob preparation methods inherited from generations. They soak dates in a container. The next day, they squeeze the date confit between her fingers. A sweet juice flows from it, which is put to reduce on a slow and controlled fire, together with the seeds. The molasses obtained after filtering to eliminate seeds and peels, is called rotbi honey. As cooking is mastered, all the mineral salts in dates remain intact like vitamins. Prepared Rob is put in glass jars without any additives and keeps for long period. It is used in various culinary preparations such as hawwar (mixed powder of roasted sorghum, coriander, fenugreek, wheat, beans and dried orange peel). In cooking, it is mixed with different pastries as a sweetener or for its characteristic smell. In addition, women used Rob in the preparation of traditional food products such date vinegar and balsamic vinegar (vinegar stored in a cellar at temperature below 20 ° C and protected from light and oxygen).
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