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Baked Halvah

Baked Halvah

Ingredients
  the halvah
* 3 cups farina (cream of wheat)
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1 cup butter
* 4 eggs, separated
* 1 cup sugar
* 1/2 cup slivered almonds, blanched
the syrup
* 2 1/2 cups sugar
* 3 cups water
* 1 piece stick cinnamon
* 2 whole cloves, (2 to 3)
 
Baked Halvah
Preparation
  Mix farina with cinnamon and set aside. Cream butter in a bowl. In another bowl, beat egg yolks with the sugar until thick. Add to the butter and beat very well. Beat egg whites until stiff. Then fold alternately with the farina into the butter-egg mixture. Add almonds; mix gently. Put into a buttered pan. Bake in preheated 350 F. oven for 45 min.

Prepare syrup by boiling all of the ingreds. for abt. 8 min. Remove and discard cinnamon and cloves. Pour syrup over hot halvah. Cool, serve.

 

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