Burt Blank
Legendary Member
My contribution was the donkey work of grating, kneading squeezing and pleading. Mrs blank froze the excess dough to make Serbian Almond Baklava triangles for next wkends treat.
First make a simple oil and water dough using the strongest flour you have. I kneaded it for 10 mins for the gluten to form good elastic strands. Rest for 1 hour then knead for another 5 mins then rest till you pull. (the pastry not your neighbor.
Blitz a hanfull of almonds
Grate 5 apples.
Mix some cinnamon with brown sugar.
Count 167 sultanas and eat 7 to leave an even number with a zero on the end.
Melt some butter.
Pull the pastry so you can see your fingers through it. Knuckle the pastry onto a tea towel. Splatter with melted butter, squeeze a handful of grated apple and scatter it on the pastry evenly.
Divide the 160 sultana by 3 = eat 1 giving you three piles of 53. Eat 3 of each pile so you have a zero ending number ie leaving you with 50 in each pile.
Scatter the whizzed almonds on top. Lift one end of the tea towel and roll. Keeping the roll on the towel. Lift and place in tin. Repeat twice more. Bake in a medium oven till brown. Eat luke warm with sour cream or ice cream.
First make a simple oil and water dough using the strongest flour you have. I kneaded it for 10 mins for the gluten to form good elastic strands. Rest for 1 hour then knead for another 5 mins then rest till you pull. (the pastry not your neighbor.
Blitz a hanfull of almonds
Grate 5 apples.
Mix some cinnamon with brown sugar.
Count 167 sultanas and eat 7 to leave an even number with a zero on the end.
Melt some butter.
Pull the pastry so you can see your fingers through it. Knuckle the pastry onto a tea towel. Splatter with melted butter, squeeze a handful of grated apple and scatter it on the pastry evenly.
Divide the 160 sultana by 3 = eat 1 giving you three piles of 53. Eat 3 of each pile so you have a zero ending number ie leaving you with 50 in each pile.
Scatter the whizzed almonds on top. Lift one end of the tea towel and roll. Keeping the roll on the towel. Lift and place in tin. Repeat twice more. Bake in a medium oven till brown. Eat luke warm with sour cream or ice cream.