Baked
apples with vanilla syrup
Ingredients:
8-10 eq. sized apples, 1/3 cupful walnut kernels, 3/2 cupful sugar, vanilla,
cinnamon according to taste, 50g butter. Peel and carefully hollow the apples.
Prepare a stuffing from the beaten butter, 3/4 cupful of sugar, crushed walnut
kernels and cinnamon. Stuff the apples and place in a lined dish, pour over 1-2
spoonful of water and bake in a moderate oven. Serve cold, sweetened with syrup
made from cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of water and vanilla. The same recipe may
be used for quinces and pears. (My grandma used to make them the best, may God
bless her).
Banitsa
saralia
Ingredients:
1kg flour, 1/2 cupful walnut kernels, 4 cupfuls sugar, 4 cupfuls water,
vanilla, 150g butter. Prepare a medium-hard dough from the flour, some salt and
cold water, and roll into sheets (1 kg of ready-rolled sheets may also be
used). Baste each sheet with some butter and top with crushed walnut kernels.
Roll together and arrange either lengthwise or in a circle in a butterlined
dish. Bake in a moderate oven. After it has cooled pour over hot syrup made
from sugar, water and vanilla.
Sweet balls
with syrup
Ingredients:
150g cottage cheese, 3 eggs, 1 cupful flour, 3/2 cupful sugar, vanilla, 1 tsp
baking soda, 3 cupful water, 1 cupful sunflower oil. Mix the cottage cheese and
eggs well, before gradually adding the flour, followed by the baking soda.
Shape into balls with a spoon and fry in hot oil. When cooled, pour over syrup
made from water, sugar and vanilla.
Milk banitsa
Ingredients:
400g flour, 9 eggs, 3/2 milk, 3/2 cupful sugar, 1/2 cupful semolina, 1 spoonful
sunflower oil, 1 spoonful vinegar, 1 cupful water, 180g butter. Prepare a
medium-hard dough from the flour, 1 egg. oil, vinegar and water and roll into
sheets (500g of ready pastry sheets may also be used). Place the sheets in a
tray, basting each with melted butter. Bring the milk to the boil, add the
sugar, remaining butter and semolina under constant stirring, followed by the
beaten eggs when cooled. Mix well and pour over the pastry sheets. Bake in a
moderate oven. Serve into pieces and sprinkle with icing sugar.
