"Al-Baloza Al-Ramadan" .. Masri restore traditional candy to the streets of Cairo

Shaima Abdullah - Cairo

The word may have passed through your ear in an old movie, or you might have heard of it from your grandmother, or had a taste of it on a summer night, when you crave sweets and your mother does not find a recipe for grandmothers. A candy that does not know a name from the excess of its taste and style only "Bullets".

In the past, she kept her place next to the rice with milk and milk, but with the rivalry of custard and pudding, the mood subsided and became an after-eye effect.

Once again, in old Cairo, where the Egyptians are enjoying the fragrance of history and the atmosphere of Ramadan in the streets of Al-Moez, Al-Baluza returned to its place and returned strongly to rival the sweets of the other side of the Western world.

A family of kings
The family of Locke has a long tradition of making candy, but for years it has been limited to traditional dairy products, rice with milk, yoghurt in pottery, and machete; but Iman - the youngest daughter in her family - decided to restore the bloom after her disappearance, Ramadan.

The experience of industrialization drew from her father, and her brother helped her with the equipment. She left her family and children and studied it, which she still completed with open education. She decided to experiment. She rented an old shop for manufacturing. She designed a special vehicle for sale in the street.

Mix milk and sugar flavored with roses
In the Eman cart, which lived the corner of the narrow lane away from the Ramadan hustle in Moez Street, a mixture of flour, starch, milk and sugar, fresh fruit pieces decorating the dish with banana and strawberry colors, vanilla and rose water.

That cart is her first project, her first attempt to get out of the world of work under pressure to private and free work. She does not have the faith of well-being, her specific dates, working hours, childcare and housekeeping during the blessed month; all tasks are her alone, and only she takes care of them.

Between five and ten pounds, the price of the plastic lies in her tea. The dessert, which is about to be extinct, owes its faith to its return, after the male family refused to carry the flag of the flag, and turned it into a vehicle of faith, in one of the alleys of aesthetics, the last witness to the profession before its extinction. The boys were able to revive the family's profession and the reason for its fame. The carnage that began and became famous in the Fatimid era was also spread by the Ottomans. The family kept its family secret attributed to Ali Bak, who was settled in ancient Cairo.

Is it a mascara?
There is a question that some people say when they pass in front of a vehicle of faith: "Is the mascara a mascara," assures everyone that they do not sell anything that is suspicious of wine, and that the components of the food are devoid of anything that can be fermented.

The mood that keeps her family secret about the "ice cream" mentioned by Naguib Mahfouz in his novels is different in the films taken despite the similarity of the two names, and the ice cream has a wine-like drink made from fermented barley.