Chew on a cocoa bean. It’s not nearly tasty as sipping of a cup of cocoa, is it? Many foods can’t be eaten unless they’re ground up first. Hunt through your kitchen. See how many foods can’t be eaten unless they’re ground up, are already ground up or are made by ground-up ingredients.
How did all those ground-up foods get ground up? Mostly by large grinding machines in mills or bakeries. But for thousands of years, it was a different story. Grinding food was part of everyday life - and it was done by hands.
GRIND SOME HAIS
Hais is an ancient version of trail mix from North Africa. Nomads ate it as they travelled. They needed food that wouldn’t spoil, was nourishing, easy to carry and filling. Hais was made by grinding bread, dates and nuts into little pieces and forming them into balls. Makes Hais yourself but do the grinding the old way, by hand. It’s up to you to figure out how. Food processors and blenders and other electrical blenders are out of bounds! As you’ll find out, hais is delicious, but a little goes along way.
100% NATURAL :
> 50 ml L (1/4 cup) pistachio nuts
> 50 ml L (1/4 cup) dates
> 50 ml L (1/4 cup) shelled almonds
> 50 ml L (1/4 cup) dry breadcrumbs
> a spoonful of cooking oil (the old recipe calls for sesame oil - buy it at health food stores)
> powdered sugar (optional)
LETS MIX THEM UP!
1. Remove the pistachio nuts from their shells
2. If the dates are hard, soak them in a little warm water to soften them, remove the pits.
3. Crush, pound or grind up the dates, almonds and pistachio until the pieces are about the size of rice grains. Mix them all together
4. Mix in the breadcrumbs and add just enough oil to make things stick together
5. For the mixture into little balls. Sprinkle them with sugar if you wish. Eat.
^________^ taken from Discover Dinosaurs : A Royal Ontario Museum Book
I just wanna ask: Have you tried this recipe? If the answer is yes, please send it to me :d
north africa? pistacho nuts(family of pistaciaceae vera) only grow in iran, western afganistan, and turkmenistan.
i think it’s a hoax…it is impossible for those apes to import from the babylonians…
in the beginning of 20th century, Marocco(north africa) has just begun to export them…
- Please send your address Mr Mardiansyah, $60/gram
- i assumed you’ve misinterpret the narration Mr Homo neosapien. Well, Hais itself is an ancient version of trail mix. I think the ingredient above is suggested to become a modern one which could be found in -lets say- our kitchen or market nearby. Ah! they weren’t apes, if you dont mind 
hoax? kl g ada pistacho nuts ganti aja pk long nut :p
Pas bener nih ditambah susu anget buat cemilan tengah malem,
hmm