Dates and Delights production

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PREFACE
One of the major objectives of Regional Project for Palm and Dates
Research Centre is to disseminate Scientific and Technical in
formation on the Improvement of the Date Palm Industry in the form
of books, journals, bulletins and circulars with national and in
ternational agencies . The present Publication > marks an important step towards this aim with a
collaboration between the Project and the Arab Federation for Social
and Economic Development ( AFSED ), Kuwait .
This Book is an attempt to provide basic information on dates and
confectionery and how to use dates as a raw material in
confectionery acquired by the author over years and hope that it well
serve scientists, extension workers, confectionery fabric, as well as
student .
The material in this book has been arranged in twelve chapters
including Raw Material in confectionery , Date and production of
hard boild sweet, Dates and production of toffee, Production of
masquol, James, Pectin sweet from date liquid sugar, Gelatin sweet
from dates, Chocolate and date bar, and also the book contains
chapter on how to calaculate sugar confectionery and chocolate
recipes and other chapter on Microbial and metal contamination and
the last chapter is the Quality control in confectionery .
I am grateful to Documentation staff of the Project specially Miss.
Itidal Musa Khalil for her assistance and Mrs. Seita Kasbarian for
typing .
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