Eugenie's Baklava
- 1 pound phyllo (filo) pastry sheets
- 1 cup ghee (clarified butter) melted
- 1 1/2 cups walnuts chopped
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 13 teaspoon cloves ground
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
- Combine last 4 ingredients.
- Butter bottom of 16x10x2 pan generously.
- Lay half of Phyllo dough in pan, brushing each sheet with butter.
- Mix nuts and spices with sugar and sprinkle evenly over dough.
- Lay on rest of Phyllo dough, buttering each layer.
- Brush top layer with butter.
- All butter should be used.
- If not, drizzle rest of butter over top too.
- Cut into diamond shaped pieces without cutting through bottkom.
- Bake in a preheated 350F (180C).
- oven on a shelf a little above center until lightly golden, finish cutting and allow to cool.
- Pour warm honey-lemon syrup over baked Baklava.
- Serve warm or cold.
- Syrup: Combine and bring to a boil and simmer one minute.
- This is a great recipe.
- Don't think that you have to boil the syrup more than one minute.
- It will be thin.
- Another secret that a Lebanese friend told me is to either put hot syrup over cold pastry or cold syrup over hot pastry.
- You might try other nuts, but I think Walnuts are the best.
- Pistachios were probably the original nut, but everyone around here uses Walnuts.
phyllo, ghee, walnuts, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves ground, sugar, water, lemon juice, honey
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/eugenies-baklava-42059 (may not work)