Ma'amoul bil Tamer (Lebanese Date Shortbread) | Saveur

Name: Ma'amoul bil Tamer (Lebanese Date Shortbread) | Saveur
Ingredients: 3 cups fine semolina; 1 ⁄ 2 cup flour; 12 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled; 3 tbsp. sugar; 1 ⁄ 2 tsp. kosher salt; 1 ⁄ 3 cup whole milk; 2 1 ⁄ 2 tbsp. rose water; 2 tsp. orange blossom water; 5 cups pitted dates; 10 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and chilled; 2 tbsp. ground cinnamon; 1 1 ⁄ 2 tbsp. grated nutmeg

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These Lebanese shortbread cookies feature a buttery pastry scented with rose and orange blossom waters wrapped around a cinnamon and nutmeg-spiced date filling.

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Ingredients

3 cups fine semolina
1⁄2 cup flour
12 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3 tbsp. sugar
1⁄2 tsp. kosher salt
1⁄3 cup whole milk
2 1⁄2 tbsp. <a href="https://www.saveur.com/article/kitchen/best-lebanese-ingredients/">rose water</a>
2 tsp. <a href="https://www.saveur.com/article/kitchen/best-lebanese-ingredients/">orange blossom water</a>
5 cups pitted dates
10 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and chilled
2 tbsp. ground cinnamon
1 1⁄2 tbsp. grated nutmeg