pistachio nuts, rose-water, sesame
seeds, and other Arabian Night
ingredients. Very often little bowls
of yoghourt are handed round and
eaten with sugar and a conserve of
quinces or little oranges, more like
jam than our compote.* The Greeks
are also much addicted to a slab-
like cold rice sweet, called rizogalo,
liberally sprinkled with cinnamon,
loukoumadés, which are like very
small doughnuts served in a honey
syrup, and baklawá, the honey and
almond cakes which originated in
Turkey.
The huge selection of ices which
had such allure for Mr Compton