Baklavas

Description
Fillo pastry with nuts

Ingredients

 * ½ kilo fillo pastry about 20 sheets
 * ½ cup of butter
 * 2 cups of finely chopped almonds
 * 1 cup of finely chopped walnuts
 * 2 tbsp caster sugar
 * 1 tbsp of pounded mixed cloves and cinnamon bark

Syrup

 * 2 cups of sugar
 * 2 cups of hot water
 * 1 small piece cinnamon
 * the rind of 1 lemon
 * 2 tbsp lemon juice

Directions

 * 1) In a bowl mix both kinds of nuts, sugar and pounded spices.
 * 2) Choose one oven dish of 12x8 inches and grease sides and bottom.
 * 3) Brush with butter 6 sheets of fillo pastry and place in oven dish.
 * 4) Spread over half of the nuts mixture.
 * 5) Brush with butter another six sheets and place to cover the nuts.
 * 6) Spread over fillo the rest of nuts, brush the remaining fillo and cover the second bed of nuts.
 * 7) Fold the edges of fillo round the sides of dish and brush the top with the rest of butter.
 * 8) Cut fillo into square or diamond shapes and sprinkle some cold water on top.
 * 9) Place baklava in a moderate oven and bake for one hour until golden.
 * 10) Meanwhile pour in saucepan sugar and water and stir to dissolve.
 * 11) Add remaining syrup ingredients and heat to boil for about 15 minutes until the syrup thickens.
 * 12) Remove from heat, leave it to cool and remove lemon rind.
 * 13) Remove baklava from oven and while still hot pour over the cold syrup.
 * 14) Cover dish with a serviette, leave baklava to cool and cut into pieces.
 * 15) Makes about 20 pieces.