Categories: Desserts
Ingredients
- 5 cups milk, set aside 1 cup
- 4 eggs
- 1 pound butter (set aside 1 stick)
- 1/2 cup Farina
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 pound Phyllo dough
- 1/2 lemon peel, grated
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Syrup
- 1 glass water
- 2 glasses sugar
- few drops of lemon juice
Directions
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Prepare the syrup by combining water sugar and lemon juice.
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Bring to a boil, lower heat and boil for 10 minutes
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Heat up the milk, but do not boil
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In mixer, beat the eggs and sugar
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Add the Farina, lemon juice and peel and beat well
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Add Farina mixture to pot with milk
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Dilute corn starch in the glass of cold milk that had been set aside
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Stir well and pour into warm milk mixture
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Stir over low heat until it starts to thicken and bubble.
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Remove from heat and stir in 1 stick of butter, until totally melted
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Butter 9 × 13 pan.
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Place 1 sheet of phyllo into pan and brush with butter
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Repeat with 8-10 sheets of phyllo
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Pour in mixture.
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Top with a little of the melted butter, then continue layering phyllo, butter each one.
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Cut into diamond shapes (but not all the way through)
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Bake in preheated 350 degree oven until brown.
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Let stand for a few minutes then douse with cooled syrup