I was thinking of making a coffee liqueur with the Espresso Natalia gave me and I google searched to see how it is made. I have made liqueurs in the past so I knew the procedure but still I wanted to see if there was something more to do. I found this recipe and since [...]
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I love the taste of lemon and I have been wanting to make lemon curd for ages. However, butter and eggs was the reason that kept me from making it. However, even if I have been avoiding eggs and butter as much as I can, I still want to make a few things at least [...]
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Would you believe that spring has just started and we will be having 35C/95F degrees during the weekend? Well, we didn’t have much of a winter this year and we don’t expect spring to last for long, so I wanted my post today to be very colourful before spring is gone.
Whenever I go to the [...]
Pischies is a Cypriot traditional pastry dessert made with dough and were fried and then bathed in syrup.
These pastries are very easy to make and very tasty. You can make them from scratch but we usually make pischies when we have left over dough and of course we have left over syrup, after preparing [...]
Although I have already given a few recipes for spoon sweets I forgot to mention how we know if the syrup is ready. It is very important for spoon sweets that the syrup has the proper density.
If we have doubts and don’t know if the syrup is ready this is what we should do.
For spoon [...]
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This syrup can be used for all sweets made with phyllo pastry but you can also use it to wet sponge cakes as well. In some cases it can be mixed with honey as well.
It is usually flavoured with cinnamon, cloves and lemon peel. In some recipes blossom water is added.
Ingredients
2 parts of sugar
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