Ingredients
DIAMONDS (LEBANESE COOKIE SIMILAR TO BAKLAVA)
Ingredients: ——— —1 lb filo dough (keep dough wrapped in damp towel
once you cut it)
2 lbs butter (lightly salted)
1 1/2 c. Walnuts, ground fine
1 bottle orange flower water (should be available at specialty shops, or
at a grocery store with a very good ethnic section)
3 1/2 c. Sugar (or more to taste)
1 3/4 c. Water
Juice of 2 lemons
Instructions
Instructions: ——— —-Mix nuts with 1/2 c. Sugar, or more to taste. Add
1 1/2 Tblsp. Orangeflower water. Make syrup ahead of time. Mix 3 c. Sugar
and water to boil; boil 1/2hr. Add lemon juice, and 1 1/2 Tblsp.
Orangeflower water. Melt butter. Line 13×9 pan with butter. Separate dough
in half; cut tofit pan. Keep left-over pieces of dough to fill in spaces.
Separate sheets of dough and put 2 sheets together. Add 2 sheets at atime to
pan and then butter well. Add 2 more sheets and butter again. You can fill
in layers with pieces. Continue until half the dough isused. Add layer of
nuts, and then repeat procedure as you did for the bottomhalf. Butter top
layer and cut into diamonds with sharp knife. Pour remaining butter over top
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or untilgolden brown. Let cool slightly, and
add some of the syrup. Then cool completely. Use remainder of syrup to
freshen them up” when you serve or eat them.
