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Tunisia
Boulou is the long sweet loaf of Tunisia's Jewish families, baked for Shabbat and holidays and now sold in every Tunis pâtisserie: a dense, cake-like dough of flour, oil, sugar, eggs and orange, with raisins, ground almonds and fennel or anise seed, shaped into two flat logs, rolled in sesame, studded with whole almonds and baked until golden. It is sliced like a cake and eaten with tea or coffee, and it keeps for days. Modern versions hide a bar of dark chocolate in the middle.
The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 12 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.