Mahmous
Before the expansion of date palm cultivation drained the water table, the southern Persian Gulf shores were ideal for water-needy crops such as onions.[5] The family maintains the tradition of hosting holidays and funerals, though a task once shared between genders has become dominated by women who still roast on wood (often palm fronds) that has long since been replaced by gas the heat source itself.Some of the old customs continue in use today by some hosts, including roasting on firewood or palm fronds and placing the rice in palm-frond baskets (the weaving of which is known locally as Al-Khous).Hosts often serve sides, including rice-flour qatayef (folded pancakes) and hot drinks such as coffee and tea with cinnamon sugar syrup or milk.People flock to the family house starting at six in the morning to help prepare the dish for afternoon distribution, often using the help of fifty women from the area in a section presided over by his wife while the men work in another portion of the mansion.