Craving something sweet? Try this 4000-year-old Mesopotamian dessert

There's old-fashioned cooking and then there's this. Mersu is the oldest known dessert in human history, being discovered on – of all things – a shopping receipt from ancient Mesopotamia. Tasting History with Max Miller, a show dedicated to resurrecting recipes from ages long past, took a stab at recreating the sweet, nutty date-filled pastry with ingredients that you don't have to travel back in time for. — Read the rest
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