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A special Maltese sweet-made of pastry dipped into or smeared with honey and spiced with anisette.

What You Need:           
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  • Deep oil for frying
  • Honey
  • Chopped chocolate to decorate
  • 10 oz flour
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • A knob of butter
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 small glass anisette

  • How To Cook:
    1. Mix thoroughly together the flour, sugar and butter; add the egg yolks and the anisette, mix into a dough and knead well.

    2. Roll out and leave to set for a few hours.

    3. Roll the pastry out very finely, cut into long strips, curl into knots and fry in deep oil until golden-brown in color.

    4. When done remove from the pan and drain on thick kitchen paper.

    5. Finally and whilst still hot, pour honey on each strip and decorate with chopped chocolate and kosbor ("hundreds and thousands").


     
     
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