It wouldn’t brand feel for me to start this post service without starting fourth dimension talking most my Yia Yia. My 88-year-old Yia Yia has ever been ane of the wittiest in addition to sharp-tongued women I know.
When I was 6-years-old, she moved from South Bend to Florida. After she moved, I was alone able to come across her ane time a twelvemonth when my solid unit of measurement visited for jump break. But I volition state she was ever proficient for an hour-long telephone call! She could verbalize your ear off!
In March of this year, nosotros received horrible tidings – Yia Yia suffered a stroke. And to a greater extent than than anything, it affects her mightiness to discovery her words spell trying to speak. This is devastating because her words were ever such a big business office of her personality.
Additionally, because of the stroke, Yia Yia was no longer able to alive without full-time assistance. So inwards July she moved dorsum habitation to South Bend. And for the starting fourth dimension time since I was 6, I direct keep been able to come across Yia Yia on a monthly basis.
This year, Yia Yia was able to accept business office inwards my footling family’s yearly tradition – making baklava for the holidays. My mom in addition to dad in addition to I direct keep ever used Yia Yia’s recipe, but she was never about to become far amongst us.
While nosotros were making the baklava I could tell that for the starting fourth dimension time since her stroke, she seemed dorsum to her normal self. It was a real exceptional experience, in addition to I volition ever squall back it.
Yia Yia's Famous Baklava
Ingredients
For the baklava
· 1 pound filo
· 3/4 pound unsalted butter, melted
· 1 in addition to 1/4 pound walnuts finely chopped
For the syrup
· 2/3 loving cup low-cal Karo syrup
· 1 in addition to 1/3 loving cup honey
· 2/3 loving cup water
· 1 cinnamon stick
You too need a 9x13 baking pan in addition to a pastry brush
Directions for the baklava
1. Lightly butter a 9x13 baking pan.
2. Unroll filo dough in addition to comprehend amongst a cool textile to proceed from drying out every bit y'all work.
3. Carefully house ane canvas of filo at the bottom of the baking pan.
4. Dip pastry brush inwards melted butter in addition to butter layer of filo thoroughly.
5. Do the same affair amongst 4 to a greater extent than sheets of filo – placing a canvas inwards the baking pan in addition to therefore buttering.
6. Lay a 6th canvas of filo inwards the pan, but DO NOT butter this sheet.
7. Evenly distribute 1 loving cup of the chopped walnuts on this layer of filo.
8. Now repeat the procedure again, but this fourth dimension you’ll alone layer 3 sheets. So it volition hold back similar this: filo, butter, filo, butter, filo, nuts. Continue this procedure until y'all direct keep 5 layers of nuts.
9. The terminal layer volition consist of 6 sheets of filo – but similar the bottom layer.
10. Once you’ve layered 6 sheets pour the extra butter inwards the saucepan on top. But DO NOT dump all of the butter. In your saucepan of melted butter y'all volition come across a white creamy bottom layer. This is the milk of the butter. Do non position the milk of the butter on the baklava – but the locomote past times layer. Discard the milk of the butter when finished.
11. Refrigerate the baklava until the butter hardens (approximately 1 hour).
12. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
13. Score the baklava inwards 4 at nowadays lines.
14. Put baklava inwards the oven in addition to bake for 35 to forty minutes or until the baklava is lightly browned.
Directions for the syrup
1. While baklava is baking, combine all ingredients inwards a saucepan in addition to hit on medium heat.
2. Let the syrup come upward to a boil in addition to therefore cool.
3. Once the baklava has been pulled from the oven, allow it remainder 5 minutes in addition to therefore pour the entire saucepan of syrup on top. *Rule of thumb: Pour cool syrup over hot baklava therefore the syrup soaks into the baklava.*
4. Refrigerate baklava for 24 hours therefore that the syrup tin fully soak into the baklava.
5. Cut into isosceles triangles when develop to serve.
6. Serve baklava inwards cupcake wrappers.
7. The baklava volition proceed inwards the fridge for upward to a calendar month – if y'all don’t swallow it all earlier then!
ADDITIONAL NOTE: There are ii rolls of filo inwards the package. Keep ane gyre inwards the fridge spell y'all are making the baklava. Sometimes the sheets are non all usable (there torn or crumbly) in addition to y'all may direct keep to discard some sheets. If that is the case, y'all volition need to purpose the 2d roll. Any unused filo may last stored inwards the fridge for upward to ii weeks.
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