Recipe - Baklava With Cooky Filling

COOKY FILLING
2 cup Sweet butter
1 cup Confectioners' sugar
1 Egg yolk
1 teaspoon Vanilla or almond extract
4 cup Flour

SYRUP
4 cup Granulated sugar
4 cup Water
1 cup Honey
Lemon juice to taste

BAKLAVA
1 pound Toasted blanched almonds *
One half cup Zwieback crumbs
4 tablespoon Granulated sugar
1 ds Cinnamon
1 pound Phyllo pastry sheets
1 One half cup Sweet butter; melted

*Note: Either toasted blanched almonds, or walnut meats, or half of each,
(finely chopped) may be used.

Cooky Filling: Cream the 2 cups sweet butter until light. Gradually beat
in the confectioners' sugar and continue to beat until mixture is fluffy.
Add egg yolk and vanilla or almond extract and blend well. Work in about 4
cups flour to make a mediumsoft dough. Set aside and make syrup.

Syrup: In a saucepan combine the granulated sugar and water. Bring to a
boil and boil for 15 minutes or until syrup is slightly thick. Add honey
and again bring to the boiling point. Add lemon juice to taste, and cool.

Mix almonds or walnuts, or a combination of the two, with zwieback, 4 T
granulated sugar, and cinnamon. Brush 2 sheets of phyllo pastry evenly
with butter and sprinkle with nut mixture. Place 2 buttered sheets of
phyllo on top and sprinkle with nut mixture. Shape a portion of cooky
filling into a 1/2inchthick roll and place the roll along one edge of the
pastry sheets. Roll up loosely, cut into 2inch slices, and place slices
in a buttered cake pan. (Continue in this method until all phyllo pastry
and/or cooky filling is used.) Brush tops of each slice with butter and
bake in a 350 F oven for 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Dip the hot
baklava slices, one at a time, in cold syrup, allowing each piece to remain
in the syrup for a few minutes.

From: "The Art of Greek Cookery"
by The Women of St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church
(Hempstead, NY)

Typed for you by Karen Mintzias
Sent to me by Bill wight@odc.net