Murri Naqi Substitute - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 ounces bread or 1/3 cup breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon flour
2/3 teaspoon anise seed
2/3 teaspoon fennel seed
2/3 teaspoon nigella seeds
1/4 teaspoon saffron
1/3 teaspoon celery seed
1/4 ounce carob powder (1 tbsp)
1/4 ounce walnuts, chopped fine
1 1/2 ounces quinces
1/2 cup salt
1 pint water
1/4 lemon, juice of

Preparation

Cook the honey in a small frying pan on medium heat, bringing it to a boil then turning off the heat and repeating several times; it will taste scorched.
The bread is sliced white bread, toasted in a toaster to be somewhat blackened, then mashed in a mortar. Or, toast breadcrumbs in a dry skillet until very very dark brown.
Toast the anise, fennel and nigella in a frying pan or roast under a broiler, then grind in a mortar with celery seed and walnuts.
Peel and core quince.
Boil all ingredients except the lemon together for about 2 hours, then put it in a potato ricer, squeeze out the liquid and add lemon juice to it; this is the murri. The recipe generates about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of liquid. You can then add another 1/2 cup of water to the residue, simmer 1/2 hr -1 hr, and squeeze out that liquid for the second infusion, which yields about 1/3 cup. A third infusion using 1/3 cup of water yields another 1/4 cup or so.