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Baked Dessert With Oil
½ cups olive oil 1 ½ cups orange juice 1 ½ cups sugar 2-3 soup spoons cognac 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cloves ½ cup walnuts ½ cup raisins 650 grams
Cretan Xerotigana
(Dry Fries)
3 teacups flour 3 soup spoons orange juice 4 soup spoons water 3 soup spoons olive oil Salt For the syrup: 1 teacup honey 1 teacup sugar 1 teacup water Walnuts, roughly chopped
Halva
2 cups coarse semolina 1 cup olive oil 2 ½ cups sugar ½ cup almonds 5 cups water Cinnamon 3 cloves Lemon
Honey Puffs
(Loukoumades)
650 grams flour 1 full tablespoon yeast 1 cup of lukewarm water 1 tablespoon salt Oil for frying 2 cups honey 1 cup water Cinnamon
Melomakarona
(Small Honey Cakes)
2 cups olive oil 1 cup sugar 1 cup orange juice ½ cup cognac 2 dessert spoons baking powder 8 cups fine flour 1 dessert spoon baking powder Orange rind Cinnamon Ground walnuts For
Oily Kadaif
1 kilo ready - made kadaif pastry ½ kilo almond kernels 1 ½ tablespoons cinnamon 1 tablespoon crushed rusk 2 cups oil For the syrup: 1 ½ kilos of sugar 4 glasses of water The juice of
Olive Oil Cake
1 ½ cups olive oil 1 ½ cups orange juice 1 ½ cups sugar 2 soup spoons cognac 1 teaspoon ground cloves ½ cup raisins 1 packet self-raising flour ½ cup olive
Olive Oil Cookies
2 ¼ tea cups olive oil ½ kilo sugar 1 cup cognac 1 tea cup orange juice 2 teaspoons soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder 1 teaspoon cloves, crushed Peel from one orange 2 kilos flour ½
Turnovers
(Diples)
2 cups of flour 3 eggs 4 tablespoonfuls of brandy 1 teaspoonful of baking powder 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar Olive oil 1 cup of honey ½ cup of warm water Coarsely chopped walnuts
Yiannina Baklava
Crushed walnuts ½ kilo fyllo pastry sheets 1 tea cup olive oil 2 slices dried bread, crumbled 1 cup sugar Lemon peel Cinnamon For the syrup: 1 ½ kilos sugar 4 cups water Lemon

