Hama-sana
In the last week of the blessed month of Ramadan, most families and housewives in Hama begin to prepare sweets at home in preparation for the Eid and to celebrate this occasion in the rituals and social customs that the governorate is famous for.
With the high cost of living and the rise in prices of most types of ready-made sweets in the market, home sweets have become an option for most families due to the low cost of preparing them, as well as their favorable flavor that was derived from the mastery of the housewives in their manufacture and preparation method.
Al Hajjah Umm Omar is keen every year to prepare maamoul, cakes, ghariba, and petfour, explaining to SANA's reporter that her children and grandchildren are waiting for her to savor the delicious taste, as if the joy of Eid is not complete without the presence of these traditional varieties in the rituals that she used to the homes of Hama in terms of family reunification, kinship and friends who take turns helping each other Some get it done.
Umm Abdo is a housewife, despite buying some of the ready-made sweets, but she makes cakes and exotic ones at home to serve as a guesthouse for visitors and well-wishers on the occasion of Eid for her special flavor and delicious taste.
During the last days of the holy month, members of Umm Ahmad's family joined hands to prepare happy Eid al-Fitr desserts in an atmosphere of joy, joy and tolerance, indicating that this year they attended as usual, the tablets and cakes, which come at the forefront of home sweets and hardly any home is empty of them.
Abdullah Al-Najjar waits to prepare Eid sweets at home in an atmosphere of joy, as the smell of cakes and tablets smells in the lanes and alleys, and it symbolizes the arrival of the feast because it is often made only on this occasion where his mother, sisters and neighbors gather since the afternoon to prepare the dough and prepare the filling and often the party ends Preparation in the late hours of the night, pointing out that despite the simple materials that go into preparing these sweets, such as flour, dates, ghee, pistachios, spices and sesame, they have a delicious taste and send a special joy to the souls, and this explains the keenness of many families to revive this tradition with the advent of every Feast.
Abdullah Al Sheikh
