Melahrini (walnut cake with syrup) from Pelion

Name: Melahrini (walnut cake with syrup) from Pelion
Yield: a pan the size of the oven
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 10 eggs; 10 tbsp walnuts; 10 tbsp dried breadcrumbs; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1 tsp cloves; 5 tbsp sugar; 2 cups sugar; 2 cups water

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This is the authentic recipe from Pelion as my grandmothers made it in Tsagkarada, Pelion.

Recipe by sirilo

This is the authentic recipe from Pelion as my grandmothers made it in Tsagkarada, Pelion.

Recipe by sirilo

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

This is the authentic recipe from Pelion as my grandmothers made it in Tsagkarada, Pelion.

Recipe by sirilo

This is the authentic recipe from Pelion as my grandmothers made it in Tsagkarada, Pelion.

Recipe by sirilo

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Ingredients

a pan the size of the oven

10eggs
10 tbspwalnuts
10 tbspdried breadcrumbs
1 tspcinnamon
1 tspcloves
5 tbspsugar
syrup
2 cupssugar
2 cupswater

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Steps

1

Beat the eggs with the sugar.
2

Mix all the ingredients together (except the egg whites).
3

Beat the whites into a meringue.
4

Add the meringue and stir everything lightly, using your hand, towards one direction.
5

Bake at 180°C for 45 minutes to about one hour, depending on the oven. Test with a thin wooden skewer.
6

Make the syrupboil the water and sugar for 5 minutes. Pour over the cake. One should be warm, the other one cold. For example warm syrup, cold cake.