Recipe#7693

Title: Maamoul 02

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: arlene@taranto.com 
 Subject: Maamoul 
 Sender: arlene@taranto.com (none) 
 Message-ID: EKDBH0.K1q@taranto.com 
 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 18:03:00 GMT 

Dough:
 3 1/3 cups flour
 2     Tbsp sugar
 8     oz unsalted butter
 1     Tbsp rose orange-blossom water
 1     Tbsp milk
       Confectioners' sugar to sprinkle on
 Mix the flour and sugar and cut in the butter.  Add the flower water
 and just enough milk to bind the dough into a soft ball.
 Nut filling
 1 1/2 cups walnuts or pistachios, finely chopped
 4-5   Tbsp sugar
 1     Tsp cinnamon
 2     Tbsp rose or orange-blossom water
 Mix  all the ingredients together.  
 Take walnut sized lumps of dough and make a hole in the center with your
 thumb, pushing the dough up the sides of your thumb, making a hollow
 container.  Fill the container with the nut filling 3/4 full.  Cover the
 opening by folding the container shut.  Prick with a fork.  Bake 325
 for 20-30 minutes.  Do not brown.  Cool before removing from pan.  Sprinkle
 with confectioners sugar.