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Dish: melomakarouna – honey biscuits stuffed with days as well as nuts
Melomakarouna (Honey Cookies Packed with Dates and Nuts
Pinch of salt
1 tsp cooking powder
2 pounds flour
2 sticks (1 cup) wonderful, unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups Wesson oil
1 egg
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups orange juice
1 tsp vanilla extract
Flour (regarding 1 pound a lot more).
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2 cups chopped nuts.
1 pound cut dates.
1 tbsp cinnamon.
2 tbsps honey.
Syrup.
3 cups granulated sugar.
4 cups water.
1 piece lemon (1/2 lemon).
1 cinnamon stick.
2 cups honey.
Include small quantity of salt and also 1 tsp cooking powder to 2 pounds of flour.
Beat 2 sticks pleasant (unsalted) butter as well as 1 1/2 cups sugar well. Add 2 cups of Wesson oil gradually, defeating well. Include 1 egg and also beat. Add 1 teaspoon cooking soda to 1 1/2 cups orange juice and also add quickly to blend. Add 1 tsp vanilla extract. Add flour to blend until dough is soft yet not tacky. You will utilize about another pound of flour, (about 3 pounds of flour in all).
Ready loading. Combine 2 cups chopped nuts, 1 pound sliced dates, 1 tbsp cinnamon, 2 tablespoons honey. Take 1 tablespoon dough and also disobliged 1/2 tsp filling in center and after that fold dough over to seal in filling. Bake at 350 degrees F until brown.
Prepare syrup. Boil 3 cups sugar and also 4 cups of water with one piece lemon (1/2 lemon), 1 cinnamon stick till syrupy, regarding 15 minutes. Include 2 cups honey. Dip cool cookies in cozy syrup or dip cozy biscuits in cool syrup. Dip each cookie right into honey and after that right into ground nuts combined with cinnamon.
Yields concerning 100 biscuits.
