Melomakarona
Ingredients
- I Cup Mixed Nuts mixed in ( Optional but highly recommended)
- 9 cups of flour
- 2 tsp. Baking Powder
- 1 tsp. Baking Soda
- Pinch Of Salt Optional I leave out Pinch Of Salt (Optional)
- 3 Cups Mazola Oil or half EVOO Extra Virgin Olive oil half vegetable oil
- 1 Cup Of Sugar
- ½ Cup fresh orange juice
- ½ Cup whisky or cognac I suggest Premium Quality Cognac
- 1 soup spoon cinnamon and nutmeg mixed together (see below for other suggestions)
- Or 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and one orange grated peel
- Syrup is below the recipe
- Procedure: And Ingredients
- Make Syrup Mixture: Of 2 Cups Pure Honey
- I suggest clover honey, or your choice.
- ½ cup Water
Instructions
- Procedure:
- 1.Measure Mazola oil into a large mixing bowl
- 2.Mix in dry ingredients and alternate with orange juice and cognac.
- Shape into oblong pieces.
- Bake in a 400 degree oven on a low rack until brown, on the bottom, or firm for about
- 20 minutes. I bake my cookies at 350 degrees and for 25 to 35-40 minutes depending on
- the cookie size.
- 5.Allow cookies to cool after removing from the oven.
- Procedure:
- Make Syrup Mixture: Of 2 Cups Pure Honey
- ( I suggest clover honey, or your choice)
- ½ cup Water I do equal amounts of water to the honey
- Bring to a boil, remove white film accumulated on top. Dip cookies in warm honey
- mixture and allow to penetrate for about 30 seconds.
- Drain and roll. You can use a spouted drainage spatula to pull them out of your dipping
- pot. Drain and roll in chopped walnuts, or pecans. You can also sprinkle them very finely
- chopped nut mixture on top of each melomakarono
Notes
Notes
- Extra Premium Bonus Recipe Tips: You can replace the mazola for all extra virgin olive oil, or half vegetable oil, and half extra virgin olive oil. You can also omit the nutmeg completely if you like. You can add ½ tsp. To 1 tsp. Of ground cloves. Or just leave it, with one teaspoon of cinnamon, instead of a tablespoon, of the spice. Grated orange peel can be optional, and included. Orange juice can be from frozen orange juice concentrated, then diluted, as package direction suggests.
Yield: 8 dozen or more, and sometimes less according to size of cookie.Tip: Use a Tablespoons, measuring spoon equivalent to tablespoon, or very small ice cream mini scoop for scooping up the mixture, then forming it into an oval shaped ball flattened down with the use of your fingers.