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- From: kyrimis@princeton (Kriton Kyrimis)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Halvas politikos
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- Date: 6 Feb 87 04:46:36 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE HALVAS D "12 Nov 86" 1987
- .RZ "HALVAS POLITIKOS" "A Greek dessert with semolina"
- This is a traditional greek dessert that is extremely
- .AB "tasty, and as easy to make as 1-2-3-4 (see below)." "tasty."
- .IH "fills a cake-mold"
- .IG "1 cup" "olive oil" "250 ml"
- .IG "2 cups" "semolina" "350 g"
- .IG "3 cups" "sugar" "600 g"
- .IG "4 cups" "water" "1 liter"
- .IG "" "powdered cinnamon"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Dissolve the sugar in the water and bring it to a boil.
- .SK 2
- At the same time, brown the semolina in the oil on high heat,
- stirring continuously.
- .SK 3
- When the semolina has taken a golden brown colour, add the syrup
- into it (taking care not to burn your hands), turn down the heat and keep
- stirring until you get a kind of thick porridge.
- .SK 4
- Pour into any kind of mold you can think of (a cake-mold is perfect for the
- job), and let it cool.
- .SK 5
- Unmold into a platter and sprinkle with cinnamon. Slice it using a wet knife,
- serve, and watch your weight go sky high!
- .NX
- You should be very careful during step 3, as the browned semolina is
- extremely hot, and pouring water on it causes an eruption of scaldingly hot
- steam.
- .PP
- You should not put this dessert in the refrigerator. It can keep
- for a few days outside the refrigerator, assuming you can gather enough
- will power not to eat it all at once. Some oil will start to drain off after a
- day or so, but this
- is to be expected. Just make sure you don't leave the dessert on your favourite
- tablecloth!
- .PP
- The recipe doubles, halves etc. nicely as long as you keep the
- proportion of the ingredients.
- .PP
- I have seen variations on this dessert using any kind of fat imaginable,
- ranging from cooking fat to olive oil or butter, though I've only tried
- it with olive oil.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 15\-20 minutes.
- .I Precision:
- Measure the ingredients, except for the sugar which you can adjust to taste.
- .WR
- Kriton Kyrimis
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- princeton!kyrimis
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