Cinq centimes are small butter cookies topped with peanut butter and chopped peanuts. The name means five cents in French — a reference to their original size, small as a centime coin, and their price, affordable enough that anyone passing through a Dakar market could buy one. The cookie is tender and slightly sweet. The […]

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Makroudh is a semolina pastry — a dough of coarse semolina, butter or olive oil, and orange blossom water, pressed flat, filled with a paste of dates spiced with cinnamon and fennel, rolled into a log, cut on the diagonal into diamond shapes, fried or baked until golden, and then submerged immediately in honey or […]

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