Recipe - Loucoumades (Greek Egg Confection)

One fourth cup Peanut oil
1 One fourth cup Water
1 cup Flour
6 Eggs
Also oil for deep frying

SAUCE FOR LOUCOUMADES
1 cup Honey
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Water
One lemon; (app. 1/3 cup) ,
juice of
Brandy to taste; (app. 1/3
cup)

Source: Yvette Namias

In a 3 quart saucepan bring water and oil to a boil.

Add flour and remove from heat.

Work dough with a wooden spoon until smooth. Let cool.

When cool, add eggs, one at a time, working the batter till smooth after
each added egg.

Heat about 1 inch of oil in a skillet. Temperature should be about
380 degrees F.

When hot, drop in 1 teaspoon of dough at a time, and fry till brown. Prick
with a fork, and then turn each ball over. When brown on both sides, remove
and drain on an absorbent paper.

Serve immediately, coated with sauce (see below).

Sauce for Loucoumades: Heat honey in a saucepan. Add sugar and water and
mix.

Still heating the mixture, cover it with cinnamon (not a thick coat, just
sprinkled on to cover) and then mix in lemon juice.

Lastly, add brandy.

(I prefer a thicker sauce and use much less sugar and water. when you are
making it up, before adding the sugar and water, see what you think about
the consistency for ladling out over the loucoumades, and for not dripping
all over people and the furniture.)

Reposted from rec.food.cooking.jewish newsgroup. From: Arthur Wouk
awouk@nilenet.com

Posted to JEWISHFOOD digest Volume 98 #001 by Jeff Freedman
jefffree@eskimo.com on Jan 01, 1998