Category: Desserts

Ingredients 750 gr. tel kadayif (pastry made into thin long thread-like strips; available at Turkish stores) 1 1/2 glasses of margarine 2 glasses of walnuts Syrup: 4 1/2 glasses granulated sugar, 3 3/4 glasses water, 1 teaspoons lemon juice Directions Flake kadayif and place on a shallow cake pan, sprinkle crushed walnuts over evenly and spread the other half of […]

Ingredients Whole milk (with red cab) 2/3 gallon Rice 1 cup Starch (rice, corn or wheat) 4 table spoons Vanilla 2 egg yolk sugar 1 cup or more as you wish Directions Boil the milk and add rice in it and stir them and boil again. Cook the rice until they become very soft. Stir continuously. Have some cold milk […]

Ingredients Milk 3 cups Egg yolk 2 sugar 1 cup Rice Flouru ¾ cup flaked almonds desiccated coconut gronulated vanilla Granulated pistachio Directions Beat milk and egg yolks. Add sugar, simmer, stirring. Ýn another bowl, mix rice flour and water until thickens slightly, when milk boils, add rice flour mixture. After 2-3 minutes boiling, add coconut, almonds and vanilla, put […]

Ingredients 500 grams of insipid cheese or goat milk curd 2 table spoons of flour 1 water glass of sugar Directions Melt the mashed cheese on a slow fire. On the seperate fire scorch the flour. Then add the scorched flour and sugar on the melted cheese and cook until the oil gets out of it. Then let the mixture […]

Ingredients 250g/9oz Plain Yoghurt 200g/7oz Sugar 175g/6oz Semolina 75g/3oz Plain Flour 1 Egg 1 teasp Bicarbonate of Soda 1 teasp Ground Cinnamon For the Syrup: 550g/1-1/4lb Sugar, 480ml/16fl.oz. Water Directions 1. Preheat the oven to 180C,350F, Gas mark 4 and lightly grease a 30cm/12-inch square ovenproof dish. 2. In a large mixing bowl, blend together yoghurt and sugar thoroughly. 3. […]

Ingredients 4 quinces 11/2 cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon grated clove whipped cream Directions Wash, peel and cut quinces in half. Carve quinces out. Save 4 or 5 seeds. Place them in a pan. Mix sugar, cinnamon, clove and then sprinkle them over quince halves. Put seeds into the pan. Seeds give to this dessert a nice color. […]

Ingredients 8 – 12 dried figs, stems removed 1/2 – 3/4 cup (125 – 180 ml) finely chopped walnuts 1/4 cup (60 ml) sugar 1 tsp (5 ml) lemon juice Directions Poach the figs in enough simmering water to cover for 30 minutes. Remove the figs, reserving the cooking liquid. Cut a slit in the figs and stuff with the […]

Ingredients 2 tablespoons melted margarine 1 glass flour 3 tablespoons water 4 eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 glasses olive oil Syrup : 2 glasses sugar, 1 3/4 glasses water, 1 teaspoon lemon juice Directions Syrup : Put the sugar, water and lemon juice into a saucepan, and after melting the sugar by stirring, allow it to boil until moderately […]

Ingredients 1 glass of water ½ glass of granulated sugar 500 grams of pumpkin 1 glass of sugar 1 glass of crushed walnut Directions Peel the pumpkin and cut it up into pieces. Wash it. On a tray, put a layer of pumpkin and a layer of sugar. Pour the water and close the lid. Cook it on light fire. […]

Ingredients Sugar syrup: 2-2/3 cup sugar, 2-1/3 cups water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed Dough: 2/3 cup margarine, 2/3 cup milk, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup semolina, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2-2/3 cups unbleached flour, 2/3 cups walnuts, very finely chopped, grated coconut or finely chopped pistachios for decoration Directions Preheat oven to 325 degrees […]