Dried , thickened whole milk. It is made by cooking the milk very slowly until the water evaporates off and it becomes pasty in consistency. It is used as the basis of many sweets.
Apricot, dried or fresh. The apricot is a round yellow to orange fruit with velvety, quite tough skin having tender, sweet and fragrant flesh with very little juice. It has a stone which contains an edible kernel which is used in jams (US: jellies), confections and liqueurs. It originated in China and moved slowly westward, died out and then recovered in the 15th century. The finest are said to come from Hungary.
