and Sicily. Arab cooks combined sugar with almonds to make marzipan paste, cooked it down with sesame seeds and other ingredients
to make chewy halvah, made great use of sugar in syrups aromatized with rose petals and orange blossoms, and were pioneers
in confectionery and in sugar sculpture.
There are records of a 10th-century feast in Egypt that was adorned with sugar models of trees, animals, and castles!