Amygdalota Sifneika Lenten Greek Almond Cookies
From hopscotch 14 years ago
- 8 minutes to make
- Serves 24
(Chef's note: There are many varieties of amygdalota. In some, the ground almonds are mixed with flour, butter, or eggs and baked. In others, the cookies are not baked at all; the almonds are mixed with rosewater, then shaped and left to dry a little before being dredged in confectioners' sugar. Read more Almond cookies that use no butter or eggs are one of our many Lenten sweets, which Greeks prepare especially on Clean Monday, the first day of Lent. This recipe was given to me by Mrs. Maria Salmaltani, the owner and cook of one of the best old tavernas in Kiffissia, a posh Athens suburb. Although Mrs. Salmaltani comes from Paros, she told me that this recipe originated on Siphnos, another Cycladic island, probably the most beautiful one. - AGLAIA KREMEZIS See less
Ingredients
- Ingredients: shopping list
- 1 pound shelled almonds, bleached, dried well, and finely ground in a food processor (about 2 1/2 cups ground) shopping list
- 1 1/2-2 c granulated sugar shopping list
- 1/2 c water shopping list
- 1-2 tbs orange flower water, plus more to wet fingers as you shape the biscuits shopping list
- confectioners' sugar, for sprinkling shopping list
How to make it
- Procedure:
- In a large heavy pot, heat the ground almonds, sugar, water, and orange flower water.
- Stir with a wooden spoon until the mixture no longer sticks to the bottom and sides of the pan, 5 to 8 minutes.
- Let cool slightly, then wetting your fingers with orange flower water, take tablespoonfuls and shape the biscuits to form small pears about 11/2 inches high.
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- http://www.prosphora.org/page20.html#Amygdalota Sifneika (Lenten Greek Almond Cookies)
- Keep the mixture covered while you work because it dries out quickly.
- Sprinkle the biscuits with confectioners' sugar until they are completely covered.
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