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Cigares - Middle Eastern Pastries




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List of Ingredients




Serves: 50

25 egg roll wrappers
3 cups blanched ground almonds
2-1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon orange blossom water
grated lemon rind
2 cups vegetable oil, or more if needed
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons honey




Recipe



One hour before beginning, remove the egg-roll wrappers from the freezer. Cut each in half.

Combine the almonds, 1-/2 cups of the sugar, and the egg. Mix well and add the orange-blossom water and lemon rind. Combine well.

Place 1 heaping teaspoon of the filling in the center of each wrapper and roll up like a jelly roll. Moisten the ends to secure.

Fill a heavy frying pan with 4" of oil. Heat the oil and drop the cigares in, a few at a time. When they are light gold in color, turn and then drain immediately.

In a small, heavy saucepan, bring the remaining 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil over a high heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Add the honey.

Cook briskly, undisturbed, until a small bit dropped into ice water immediately forms a soft ball. When the syrup cools to lukewarm, dip in the cigares. Drain off the syrup and place on a platter.

Note: Dainty finger pastries oozing with honey syrup are great delicacies in the Middle East. These cigares, shaped like rolled cigarettes, are served in Moroccan Jewish homes on special occasions.