Honey Rings

HONEY RINGS

Ingredients:

Pastry:

·300g flour;
·1 cup of honey
·50g nargerine
·1 cup sugar
·50g semolina
·11/2 cups semolina
·50g lard(vegetable)
·1 cup of water
·Water to bind

Filling:
· 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
· 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

· ½ teaspoon bicarbonate

· juice and rind of 1 orange

· ½ tablespoon margerine

· 2 tablespoons anisette

· 1 tablespoon orange flower water


Method:

Rub the margerine and lard into the flour and semolina, and add enough sugar to make soft pliable dough. Let it rest for an hour. Prepare the filling be heating the water in a saucepan, adding the semolina and stirring all the time to avoid lumps. Remove for the fire and add all the other ingredients, continuing to stir. Let the mixture stand for a few hours or preferibly overnight.

Roll out the pastry thinnly and cut into lenghts 24 x 10 cm. Form the filling into sausage shapes, slightly shorter that the pastry strips, place on the center of the pastry, fold the pastry around the fillingand bring the ends together to form rings. A little water will help the ends to stick together.

Place the rings, folded edge down, on buttered baking sheets. With a sharp knife, make five or six slashes on the surface of each pastry ring, so that the filling shows. Bake in a moderatley hot oven until the pastry is light gold colour.

Memories:

Honey rings remind us in Christmas because they are traditionally baked for Christmas, although this can be bought throughout the year. It reminds us too, when our relatives live abroad and come to Malta for Christmas holidays they like to taste them! They are very delicious and smell of baking honey rings.

Posted by Vanessa, Yanika and Adriana