- "Politiko Thessalonikis" syrup sweet

Category: Mediterranean Diet, Thessaloniki Recipe.

Serves: 8 -10    
Preparation time:  1h
Level: Easy

Ingredients:

For the base

  • 2 1/2 cups. tea thick semolina

  • 1 1/2 cups. tea sugar

  • 250ml fresh milk

  • 1/2 tbsp baking powder

  • 1 tsp baking soda

  • 1/2 tsp crushed Chios Mastic  $

For the syrup

  • 2 1/2 cups / tea sugar

  • 2 cups of tea / water

For the cream

  • 1 sachet of pastry cream patisserie 

  • 600ml milk

Preparation:

1. Place in a bowl of semolina, sugar, baking powder and crushed mastic (pound with a tablespoon semolina in the mortar, because  mastic "sticky") and mix.
2. In another bowl, add the milk and soda, and stir.
3. Pour the milk slowly and stir the mixture until it becomes pretty tight, but spread easily.
4. Butter a baking pan and spread with a spatula to go everywhere. A trick to pave the mixture evenly: The hit bottom with his hand on the bench 5-6 times to spread itself.
5. Preheat the oven to 180-200 oC and put about half an hour to cook.
6. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
7. Pour the syrup into the fire and boil about 8 min.
8. With cold and hot sweet syrup pour a little, just a tablespoon and let it cool.
9. Whisk the ingredients of the cream for 5 min. with mixer.
10. Pour the cream on the cake and spread with a spatula.
11. Sprinkle with cinnamon and put it in the fridge for a while, thickens the cream with the sweet.

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