Lebanese Cookies
Title: Lebanese Cookies
Categories: Lebanese, Cookies
Yield: 3 Dozen
1/3 c Cooking oil
1/2 c Butter, softened
1/3 c Sugar
1 tb Orange juice
1 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Baking soda
2 c All-purpose flour
3/4 c Sugar
1/3 c Honey
1/3 c Finely chopped walnuts
In mixer bowl, beat cooking oil into butter until blended, beat in sugar.
Add orange juice, baking powder and baking soda, mix well. Add flour, a
little at a time, to make a soft dough. Shape dough into 2-inch ovals and
place on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25
minutes or until golden. Cool pastries on rack. Meanwhile, in a saucepan,
combine the 3/4 cup sugar, honey and 1/2 cup water, bring to a boil, boil
gently, uncovered for 5 minutes. Dip cooled pastries into the warm syrup.
Sprinkle immediately with nuts. Dry on wire rack.
Thanks to Mousa Neemer
Lebanese Fresh Fruit Salad
Title: Lebanese Fresh Fruit Salad
Categories: Lebanese, Salads
Yield: 6 Servings
1 Ripe melon
1/2 A fresh pineapple
1 Oranges (up to 2)
Apple, pear or strawberries
-(depending on season)
2 Ripe bananas
Remove melon from rind and dice. Cut pineapple into chunks. Peel and
section oranges, removing all the white membrane, snip into chunks with
kitchen shears. Toss fruit together. If fruit is nice and ripe, the natural
juices will provide plenty of sweetness, so no sugar will be needed. Dice
the apple or pear and if using berries, wash and hull them. Add to fruit
mixture. Just before serving, peel, slice and add banana. Mix well.
Sent in from Dolly Hakim
Ghrybe, Lebanese Butter Cookies
Title: Ghrybe, Lebanese Butter Cookies
Categories: Lebanese, Cookies
Yield: 1 servings
2 c Solid rendered butter
1 c Superfine sugar
1 c Confectioners sugar
Approximately 4 c. cake
-flour
Blanched almond halves
Place butter in mixing bowl and beat with electric mixer for about 10-15
minutes until butter is white and fluffy. Add 2 types of sugar. Whip again
thoroughly with a spatula; gradually add flour and continue to mix with
spatula until the flour is absorbed and a medium soft dough is formed. Be
sure to mix with spatula, because heat from hands melts the butter. Add
more flour if needed. Remove mixture to lightly floured surface and quickly
roll with floured hands into rope shape about 1 1/2 inch diameter. Cut into
1 1/2 inch pieces on diagonal forming a diamond shape. Place one almond in
middle of each diamond. Place on baking sheet at 300 degrees until cookies
are set. They should remaining white not browned, about 10-12 minutes. Let
cool on sheet. When cold remove carefully.
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