Potent Preparations for Smoking, Drinking and Eating

The anassa or nassa formerly used in Russia was probably of this type. The hashish kafur used in the East contained opium and a sweet-smelling substance mixed with powdered hashish and rolled into thin sticks five to ten cm long for smoking. 

The drinking preparations are of two main types. For assis, one grinds the leaves or tops in a mortar with water and consumes the whole thing. For the esrar type, one macerates the leaves with alcohol mixed with syrups or jams diluted with water of roses, jasmine or orange blossom. Bers (or berch), chastig and chats-raki (anise scented) are of the esrar type. A preparatioi. of this sort was very popular among underworld people in the Krasnodar area of Russia in the 1930 s. 

Garawish varies in that the ingredients are added to a well-cooked syrup, thickened with further heating and poured on an oiled surface to cool. In Algeria, barley sugar was used in its preparation. 

The stuffing in dates sometimes contains hashish. Kiste,. kibarfi, misari, and kulfi are prepared in India and occasionally elsewhere and briji, capsh, ikinji and zahra are found in Syria and Palestine. 

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