BAKLAVA WITH WALNUTS

  Ingredients :
  1 glass flour
  1/4 glass water
  2 eggs
  1/5 tablespoon salt
  1 teaspoon olive oil
  1 1/3 glasses starch
Filling :
  1 glass melted margarine
  1 1/2 glasses ground walnuts
Syrup :
  2 glasses granulated sugar
  2 glasses water
 2 teaspoons lemon juice
  

Preparation :
Prepare the dough according to the dough for the baklava recipe. Place the dough pieces on each other on a woodwn board. Cut these pieces according to the size of the tray where they will be cooked. Grease the tray lightly and place one layer of dough over. Pour 1/2 tablespoon melted margarine evenly over the dough. Place only half of the pieces of dough on the tray so that there is one layer of dough, and margarine over that. When half of the dough is used up, sprinkle ground walnuts over. Over the walnuts place another layer of dough, spread some margarine, then another layer of dough, continue until all the pieces of dough are used. Cut the pieces of dough into the shape of baklava, place in a moderately heated oven and cook for an hour until the colour of the baklavas turn golden brown. Put granulated sugar, water and lemon juice into a pan, melt the sugar over moderate heat and boil for about 15 minutes until the mixture becomes a syrup. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes, brush with but.

 FLOUR HELVA

Ingredients
  1 glass flour
  1 glass margarine
  1 1/4 glasses granulated sugar
  5 glasses water 

Preparation :
Heat the margarine in a saucepan very gently, and saute the flour until golden brown in the margarine for 40 minutes over low to moderate heat. When the flour turns light golden, put the sugar and water in a seperate saucepan and make a syrup by boiling gently. Add the syrup to the saucepan with flour and simmer for 20 minutes, then take out small pieces of the helva with a wooden spool, form into balls and place on a serving plate. Serve warm.

 SEMOLINA HELVA

Ingredients
  2 glasses thick semolina
  3/4 glass margarine
  1 3/4 glasses granulated sugar
  3 1/2 glasses milk
  1/8 glass pine nuts

Preparation :
Melt the margarine in a pan, add the pine nuts and semolina, and saute over heat a little less than moderate for 40-50 minutes while continuously stirring until the colour of the pine nuts changes. Add the milk and stir well, add the sugar and continue to stir. Cover the pan and cook over low heat for 20 minutes. Remove the pan from heat, allow to cool for half an hour, stir the helva thoroughly with a spoon, put a plate and serve.

VEZIR'S FINGER

Ingredients
  3 tablespoons melted margarine
  1 1/2 glasses water
  1 glass flour
  2 eggs
  1 egg yolk
  1/2 tablespoon salt
  1 1/4 glasses olive oil
Syrup
  2 glasses sugar
  1 3/4 glasses water
  1 tablespoon lemon juice   
 

Preparation :
Syrup : Put the sugar, water and lemon juice into a saucepan, and after melting the sugar by stirring, allow it to boil until moderately thick. Set aside to cool.
Pastry : Heat the margarine in a saucepan, add the water and salt and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and add the flour at once. Stir the mixture constantly for 7 minutes with a wooden spoon. Remove from the hit and set aside to cool. When cool, add the eggs and egg yolk and knead or 10 minutes. Take walnut sized pieces of the pastry and form into finger shapes with hands wetted with olive oil. Put shaped pastry into a pan containing warm olive oil and fry over a low heat until it puffs up a bit. Turning the heat up to moderate, continue frying until golden. Remove pastry with a perforated spoon, straining out, the oil out and put into the syrup. 15 minutes later, take vezir's fingers out of the syrup. Place on serving dish and serve.

FLOUR BISCUITS

Ingredients
  2 glasses flour
 7 tablespoons margarine
75 gr. icing sugar

Frosting
  125 gr. icing sugar

Preparation :
Put the margarine and sugar into a bowl and knead until the margarine turns white. Add the flour while kneading to make into a dough. From dough into a long round shape on a wooden board, cut into pieces of desired sizes, form pieces into balls and place on greased baking sheet leaving 1 inch between each. Put in moderately hot oven to bake for 30 minutes. Make sure that the tops do not brown too much Place biscuits on serving plate, frost with icing sugar and serve when cool

BOZA

  Ingredients :
  2 kg. bulgur (boiled and pounded wheat)
  250 gr. bread yeast
  1/2 kg. granulated sugar

Preparation :
Boza is the favourite drink of particularly cold winter nights, and is sold by the boza sellers as they walk around the streets. Boza sellers who frighten the children with their deep voices are traditional characters of old Istanbul.
Clean the stalks and stones from the bulgur, wash several times and cook in plenty of water until it becomes a mush. Remove from heat, cover with a piece of cloth to keep warm and let it stand overnight. Strain the mush which is almost solidified through the strainer. In another bowl dissolve the bread yeast in warm water, strain and add to the bulgur. Add the sugar and put in a glass jar or glazed pan, close to lid tightly. Once in a while stir with a scoop. After 3-4 days a not too sour boza will be obtained.Put the boza in glasses, sprinkle cinnamon over and serve along with roasted yellow chick peas

PUMPKIN DESSERT

Ingredients
  1 medium pumpkin skinned
     and cut into slices.
  4 cups of water
  1/2 cup walnutes chopped

Preparation :
Put the pumpkin pieces into a big sauce pan. Cover the pumpkin with as much sugar as possible and let it rest overnight. Boil the pumpkin with the juice and the sugar over medium heat about 45 to 60 minutes. Cool it before serving. Serve with walnuts garnished on top.

CEVIZLI YASSI KADAYIF
  (Small cakes of batter,fired, soaked in syrup)

Ingredients
  300 gr. yassi kadayif
  4 eggs
  1 1/4 glasses olive oil
  1 1/4 glasses ground wheat
Syrup
  2 glasses granulated sugar
  1 1/3 glasses water
  1 teaspoon lemon juice
  

Preparation :
Put sugar, water and lemon juice into a pan, and stir over moderate heat until the sugar melts, boil for 10 minutes until it becomes a syrup and leave aside.
Trim 1/4 inch from the edge of the yassi kadayif. Beat the eggs in a bowl and roll the kadayif in the beaten egg. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan then fry 3-4 kadayifs each time, fry both sides, remove from the pan and drain. Dip in and out of boiling water and place immediately into the prepared syrup. Repeat this for all pieces of kadayif. Cover with a plate and allow them to stand in the syrup for an hour. Place the kadayif on a serving plate sprinkle ground walnuts over and serve.

TEL KADAYIF WITH WALNUTS

Ingredients
  750 gr. tel kadayif (pastry made into thin long     thread-like strips; available at Turkish stores)
1 1/2 glasses of margarine
2 glasses of walnuts
Syrup
4 1/2 glasses granulated sugar
3 3/4 glasses water
1 teaspoons lemon juice

Preparation :
Flake kadayif and place on a shallow cake pan, sprinkle crushed walnuts over evenly and spread the other half of the kadayif on top. Sprinkle melted margarine over and place in moderate oven to bake for 40 minutes.
SYRUP: Meanwhile, put the granulated sugar, the water and lemon juice into a saucepan and boil until moderately thick. When golden brown, take kadayif out of oven and sprinkle boiling syrup over immediately. Cover and allow to cool. When cool, place a plate large enough over the top of the pan and transfer kadayif onto the plate by turningit upside down.

TULUMBA TATLISI (Fried pastry with syrup)

Ingredients
Pastry
  2 tablespoons melted margarine
  1 glass flour
  3 tablespoons water
  4 eggs
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  1 1/4 glasses olive oil
Syrup
  2 glasses sugar
  1 3/4 glasses water
  1 teaspoon lemon juice

Preparation :
Syrup : Put the sugar, water and lemon juice into a saucepan, and after melting the sugar by stirring, allow it to boil until moderately thick. Set aside to cool.
Pastry : Heat the margarine in a saucepan, add the water and salt and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and add the flour at once. Stir the mixture constantly with a wooden spool and continue until mixture leaves the sides of the pan and forms a ball. This should take 6 minutes, then remove pan from heat and set aside to cool. When cool, add the eggs and knead for approximately 10 minutes, using a pastry bag with a large nozzle, put 7-8 pastries in a pan containing the heated olive oil. Start frying the pastry over low heat, increase heat when pastry puffs up a bit and fry until golden. Remove fried pastry with a perforated spoon, draining away the oil, the put into the syrup. Strain off the syrup, place tulumba on serving plate and serve cool