Zouza

What we know so far

Zouza (also jouza, "the walnut") are little biscuits shaped like walnut shells, baked in a hinged iron mould over the flame, then filled with caramel made by boiling a tin of sweetened condensed milk and pressed together in pairs. The shell is a plain butter biscuit dough; the surprise is the soft caramel inside, sometimes with a hazelnut hidden in the middle. They are made by the hundred for Eid, weddings and Ramadan evenings, and every Tunisian household with a zouza mould has its own dough proportions.

The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 9 ingredients and 8 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

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

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