Baclava

Everytime I make this I "wow" people. It really is pretty easy and you get a HUGE response. Make it this holiday season.


Ingredients:
4 sticks real butter melted
2 ½ cups chopped walnuts
1/8 cup sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
1 pound Filo dough
Mix together nuts, sugar and cinnamon, set aside. Brush cookie sheet with some of the melted butter. Place one sheet of filo carefully in the pan. Brush melted butter. Repeat until there are 6 layers of filo.
Sprinkle 1/3 of the sugar mixture
Layer two leaves of filo on top of the nut mixture, brush with butter, layer 4 more sheets, one at a time, brushing each with butter. Sprinkle 1/3 of the sugar mixture
Layer two leaves of filo on top of the nut mixture, brush with butter
Sprinkle last 1/3 nuts on top. Repeat layering of filo until all layers areused. Brush top layer with butter. With a small sharp knife, sore the top of the pastry with parallel diagonal lines about ½ inch deep and two inches apart, then cross them diagonally to form diamond shapes. Bake in the middle of a 350F oven for 30 minutes. Reduce the heat to 300 and bake for 45 minutes longer or until the top is golden brown.
Meanwhile, make the syrup
1 ½ cups sugar
¾ cup water
1 tbls FRESH lemon juice
1 Tbls honey
Combine sugar, water and lemon juice in a small sauce pan and stirring constantly, cook over moderate heat until the sugar dissolves. Increase the heat to high and timing from the moment the syrup boils, cook briskly, umncovered for about 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the honey. Pour the syrup over it slowly, up and down all the scored. Cool to room temp and cut just before serving.

Recipe is from my Mom