A request?

My book club read "The secret life of bees" for this month's book. I'm the host, and I want to make a recipe that's described in the book. The African-American "Daughters of Mary" eat something called "manna" at a vigil. It's described as pumpkinseeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and pomegranite seeds roasted with honey on them.

I kind of can guess how to do this (except I could not find hulled pumpkin seeds; my friends will have to peel them or spit the hulls), but what about the pomegranites? The seeds on that are pulpy and fleshy and I think putting them in the oven would be a bad idea. A search of Recipe source turned nothing up, and I suspect if I do "manna" in Google I'll get lots of Biblical commentary but not a recipe for what I want.

Is this a real recipe? Has anyone heard of it? I'm guessing it's symbolic (especially with the pomegranite seeds) but I don't know if the author made it up for the book or if it's a real thing in southern Black culture.

If you can help, please please e-mail me. The address is to the right, remove the NOSPAM part.