Greek Recipes

Walnut Cake

Greek - Karidopita

Ingredients:

2 tbsp butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup ground walnuts
sprinkling of cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
2 tbsp brandy
4 cups flour
1 tbsp rusk crumbs
3 tbsp baking powder
Juice of 1/2 lemon

Preparation:

Cream the butter. Beat in the eggs, alternating with 1/2 cup of the sugar. Add the milk, walnuts, cloves, cinnamon, brandy and finally the flour, which has been sifted together with the baking powder. Butter a bakin pan and sprinkle the rusk crumbs in the bottom. Pour in the batter and bake for an hour in a moderate oven. Boil the rest of the sugar in 2 cups water, to which the lemon juicehas been added, for five minutes, and pour the syrup over the walnut cake.

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