Its about time to make some Christmas food. My first Christmas in USA and I will enjoy it! but meanwhile in my head there is not Christmas without the familiar flavors..
in the Greek culture was a pork recipe for the Christmas supper. That habit is coming from the roman years as my granny use to tell me ,that they were sacrifice a pig to Goddess Demetra ,so the ground is profitable.some places they do turkey or rooster, stuffed with chestnuts and pine tree nuts, rice etc but we talk about later on..maybe Christmas eve!.
we make a homemade bread with decorations and many sweet cookies with honey .
this is what i really enjoy to make with granny! the cookies. actually it taste like cupcakes, but having thick honey syrup, and walnuts. many spices.. lets say spiced cake!! anyway my English are not the best and i hope you are getting the meaning at least.
my grand mother on 15th of December early at the morning, she started making those cookies!! i try to do it as she does! they are great! my friends here really enjoyed them!!
we need:
1 litre of olive oil and sunflower oil ( half and half),i teaspoon cinnamon powder,i teaspoon gloves powder, 1/2 cup Cognac or brandy,1 cup hot/warm water.1 cup of sugar,2 tspns baking soda ,1tspn orange skin (grated),1 cup +1/2 semolina flour and then white all purpose flour as much it takes.. we combine all the above till we have a soft to hard paste and not sticky on the fingers.
Shape them round or long pressed, prick them with a fork and bake them in hot oven around 400-450F for 30-40 minutes,have on mind to keep the distance between them cause they are getting wide one! and not shape them to big!!. meanwhile we make the syrup with 3 cups of sugar ,about 2 cups of honey and we add some fresh lemon skin just a bit, few lemon drops, cinnamon,and 2 whole gloves.3 cups of water we bring to boil for 10 minutes and let it to cool down ..
when the cookies are ready with soak them in the cold syrup for 2-3 minutes,place them on the plate and powder with cinnamon and walnuts .we add some extra honey on them on the top! oh!!! yam! they taste so nice . we call them "melomakarona " or "makarounes" and we use to give them to the carolers on the Christmas eve ,when they knock our doors to sing for us the Christ Birth!
enjoy
! they are Delicious even there is not butter! and much more healthier! believe me!! almost i ate them all!
see ya
Emmanuel
in the Greek culture was a pork recipe for the Christmas supper. That habit is coming from the roman years as my granny use to tell me ,that they were sacrifice a pig to Goddess Demetra ,so the ground is profitable.some places they do turkey or rooster, stuffed with chestnuts and pine tree nuts, rice etc but we talk about later on..maybe Christmas eve!.
we make a homemade bread with decorations and many sweet cookies with honey .
this is what i really enjoy to make with granny! the cookies. actually it taste like cupcakes, but having thick honey syrup, and walnuts. many spices.. lets say spiced cake!! anyway my English are not the best and i hope you are getting the meaning at least.
my grand mother on 15th of December early at the morning, she started making those cookies!! i try to do it as she does! they are great! my friends here really enjoyed them!!
we need:
1 litre of olive oil and sunflower oil ( half and half),i teaspoon cinnamon powder,i teaspoon gloves powder, 1/2 cup Cognac or brandy,1 cup hot/warm water.1 cup of sugar,2 tspns baking soda ,1tspn orange skin (grated),1 cup +1/2 semolina flour and then white all purpose flour as much it takes.. we combine all the above till we have a soft to hard paste and not sticky on the fingers.
Shape them round or long pressed, prick them with a fork and bake them in hot oven around 400-450F for 30-40 minutes,have on mind to keep the distance between them cause they are getting wide one! and not shape them to big!!. meanwhile we make the syrup with 3 cups of sugar ,about 2 cups of honey and we add some fresh lemon skin just a bit, few lemon drops, cinnamon,and 2 whole gloves.3 cups of water we bring to boil for 10 minutes and let it to cool down ..
when the cookies are ready with soak them in the cold syrup for 2-3 minutes,place them on the plate and powder with cinnamon and walnuts .we add some extra honey on them on the top! oh!!! yam! they taste so nice . we call them "melomakarona " or "makarounes" and we use to give them to the carolers on the Christmas eve ,when they knock our doors to sing for us the Christ Birth!
enjoy
! they are Delicious even there is not butter! and much more healthier! believe me!! almost i ate them all!
see ya
Emmanuel
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