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 BBS: The GWE BBS [ASV/CIN]
Date: 01-07-94 (00:44)             Number: 393
From: ANGELA #142 @1614017*1       Refer#: NONE
  To: ALL                           Recvd: NO  
Subj: Baklava                        Conf: (37) Home Cooki
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Baklava
1 pound filo (either 24 or 48 sheets to the pound)
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 cup pistachios, walnuts, or almonds, chopped
3 tbs sugar

Syrup:
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tbs lemon juice
1 tbs orange blossom water (optional, but good!)

Prepare syrup. Dissolve the sugar in water and lemon juice and simmer until
thick enough to coat spoon. Add orange blossom water & simmer for another 2
min. Allow to cool, then chill thoroughly in the fridge.   NOTE:  if filo is
24 sheets to the pound, butter every sheet.  If 48 sheets to the pound,
butter every other sheet.   These directions are for 48 sheets to the pound.
 Paint a 13 x 9 baking pan with butter. Fit 1/3 of the filo sheets in pan,
brushing every other sheet w/ butter.  Mix the nuts and sugar together.
Sprinkle 1/3 of this mixture over filo.  Keep alternating filo and nuts -
ending with the filo. Cut diagonally into lozenge shapes with sharp knife.
Bake baklava for 30 min. in a 350 oven, then raise heat to 450 and bake for
approx. 5 min until puffed and very light golden in color. Remove from oven
and immediately pour the chilled syrup over the hot baklava.  Leave to cool.

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