Food

Catalogue of the Oasis Museum, hall 15:

Food

The base of diet is wheat, corn or barley flour. With it, the women bake bread and make couscous. This last one, cooked by steam, is the typical dinner in the region.

For lunch, bread is accompanied with vegetables and pieces of meat cooked in an oil sauce with many spices added. In the north of the Atlas Mountains, this mixture is prepared with a conic lid named Tagine. Otherwise, in the oasis it was traditionally cooked with clay pots, which have been substituted nowadays for aluminum pressure cookers.

For breakfast, people eat bread with oil and drink tea. Other kinds of breakfast are the barley soup and the bread stuffed with grease.

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Goatskin to make Leben (beaten milk) Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 502.

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Assif Melloul, central High Atlas Photo: Roger Mimó, 1991

Bread baskets made of palm leaves
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 503/504.

Bread table
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 505.

Shovel to cook bread
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 655.

Casseroles for couscous
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 506/509.

	Pot Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 510.
	Ceramic couscous platter Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 511.
	Sieve Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 512.
	Baskets for dates and date seeds Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 513.
	Funnel used to milk the cows Origin: Agoudal, High Atlas, 20^th century. Ref. 514.
	Glass for beaten milk Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 515.
	Basket Origin: Boudenib, 20^th century. Ref. 675.

Churn to make butter
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 516/517.

Wood mortars
Left, origin: Boudenib (Guir), 19^th or 20^th century. Ref. 518.
Right, origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 519.

Butter jar
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref.520.

Coal furnace
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 521.

Bellows
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 522.

	Wood ladles Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 523/525.
	Cooper ladle Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 526.
	Forks to take the meat from the pot Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 527/528.
	Knife Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 529.
	Stones to crush dates, almonds, spices, etc. Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 530/534.
	Kebabs Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 535/540.
	Metal spoons Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 541/542.
	Wood spoons Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 543/545.
	Pick to keep stems for fire Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 546.

Boxes for tea glasses Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 547/548.

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Kitchen shelving Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 549.

Objects that are into the shelving:

Water heater Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 550.	Water heater Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 551.
Bag for dates and flour Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 552.	Ceramic bowl Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 553.
Wood bowl Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 554.	Wood bowl Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 555.
Bread basket Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 556.	Bread basket Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 557.

Basket
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 558.

Wood mortar
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 559.

Sieve
Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 560.

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