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- From: dchatham@afit.af.mil (Dale J. Chatham)
- Subject: Baklava
- Message-ID: <1993Nov26.125756.5429@afit.af.mil>
- Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
- References: <SLQWZVE@taronga.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 12:57:56 GMT
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- In article SLQWZVE@taronga.com, eauu109@rigel.oac.uci.edu writes:
- >does anybody have a recipe for baklava?
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- Get a box of filo leaves (the nifty pastry things that are the flaky part
- of baklava. There should be a recipe on that.
-
- The recipe as I remember it is:
-
- 1 box filo leaves
- 1 pound unsalted butter
- whole cloves
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- 1/2 pound (more or less) walnuts, chopped
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinammon
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- for syrup:
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- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice (more or less to taste)
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- melt the butter
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- Mix walnuts, 1/2 cup sugar and the cinammon.
-
- butter bottom of pan with pastry brush
- lay one filo leaf on bottom of pan
- butter filo
-
- (This gets to be a regular thing. Every filo leaf has its obligatory
- coating of butter.
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- Repeat 12 times on bottom
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- Put some walnut mixture on.
-
- Lay four filo leaves (with butter)
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- more walnuts.
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- 4 more filo
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- More walnuts (anyone see a pattern here)
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- When you run out of walnuts, 12 more filo leaves
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- Refrigerate for an hour
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- Make 1" wide cuts through the entire mess, then diagonally
- about every 1"
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- Place a clove in the middle of each Baklave diamond
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- Bake at 350 degrees for about an your or until brown.
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- While baking, mix 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, 1 cup honey until
- sugar is dissolved. (Leftover does wonderful things for
- hot tea)
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- Pour syrup mixture on and allow to cool.
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- Enjoy!
-
- This is from memory, but since I never follow the recipe anyway,
- one is encouraged to experiment!
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