Basbousa Cake, also known as Namoura or Harissa, is rich and dense with a rustic texture from semolina, and a sticky sweetness from rose or orange blossom-scented sugar syrup.

This cake is called Basbousa, Namoura, or Harissa in different areas of the Middle East. My Syrian ex-mother-in-law always calls it Harissa (also transliterated Harisseh, Haressa, Harisa, Haresa, and Harisha).

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