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Show Two Greek Recipes Detailed Id never cooked when I got married, Kelly Sefakis says, so, while the food burned on the stove, I burned up the telephone line between my mothers and mother-in-law- s houses trying to find out what I was doing wrong. Finally I decided that no one else was going to feed me for the rest of my life, so I had better clean up my act. And I started collecting all the good Greek recipes that my mother and mother-in-lahad brought from the old country. sheets found in a delicatessen), Vz lbs. ground walnuts, 1 tsp. cinnammon and 4 cup of sugar. Defrost the filo. Mix nuts, cinnamon and sugar in a bowl. Brush an 11x14 inch cookie sheet (with a one inch high rim) with butter. Put a layer of filo, brush with butter and repeat six times. Sprinkle part of the nut sugar and cinnammon mixture over the top. Cover with a layer of filo brushed with butter and alternate with the nut mixture until it Kelly Sefakis There was a lot of hit and miss action in the process, she goes on, and at times it got so bad I couldnt eat my own cooking. But Nick must have liked it because he gained 40 pounds that first year ! Ske dawned Now 25 years later, Kelly has earned for herself quite a prestigous reputation in the field of Mediterranean foods, not only in Magna where she lives, but in Salt Lake as well. Her elegant Greek pastries win the most accolades however, and two her favorites are and Kouriambethes (Powdered Sugar Cook- of Bak-lav- a ies). is all used up. Cover the top with six layers of filo brushed with butter in be- tween. Awl fkeu - Place in the freezer for 10 minutes and cut into 1 x 2 inch diamond shapes before baking at 350 degrees until golden brown, (45 minutes to an hour). While this is baking make a syrup of 4 cups of sugar, Vz cup honey, 2 cups water, 1 slice lemon and a stick of cinnamon. Boil water and sugar with slice of lemon and cinnamon stick to form a thin syrup. Stir in honey and cool. After the Baklava has baked, spoon cool syrup over the hot pastry. Then eat and enjoy. Bok&wa Kmiurnkthet To make Baklava you will need: 1 lb. of butter melted in a sauce pan, 1 lb. of pastry filo (paper thin pastery ed sugar cookies are much easier to make than the Baklava. To make the Kellys mothers powder- Kouriambethes need: 1 1 lb. you will butter egg yolk 2 tbs. powdered sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 4 cups flour By 4 Kelly Sefakis tsp. baking powder Heat butter and skim off the oil, discardng the settlings in the bottom of the bowl. Place oil in a bowl and cool for 15 minutes. beaten egg yolk and beat again. Add remaining ingredients and form into one inch balls. Bake on an ungreased cooking sheet at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. While still slightly warm, Add 4D Thurs., SeptIV 1980 sift a one lb. box of powdered sugar on the bottom of the try and all over the cookies until all of the surface of the balls are completely covered. Yield is about 40 cookies. |