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Icun

Somalia

What we know so far

Icun means "eat me", and it is the Eid biscuit of Somalia: a pale, crumbly shortbread of butter or ghee, sugar and flour, scented with cardamom, pressed into small rounds with a red dot, a clove or a piece of glacé cherry on top, and baked only until barely coloured so it melts in the mouth. Street sellers used to cry "icun, icalaanji, caloosha iggee": eat me, chew me, send me to the stomach. Families bake trays of it the night before Eid; some versions (qureebaad) add ground peanuts, almonds or hazelnuts.

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 7 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

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Waiting for a cook

Icun

Somalia

What we know so far

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 7 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

See every dish waiting