Taiglach

40 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 teaspoons Baking powder
½ cup Walnuts, chopped
4½ cup Flour
1 pounds Honey
8 Eggs
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Ginger

Directions

Mix eggs, flour and baking powder and knead well. Dough should be soft but stiff enough to roll. Roll with hands by bits into long ropes ½" in diameter. Use very little flour in rolling to avoid toughness. Slice in ½" lengths. Heat oven to 350 F. While oven is heating, bring to boil the honey, ginger and sugar in a shallow broad bottmed pan. Put into this the pieces of dough. Then place pan into oven. Do not open oven for first 15 or 20 min. By this time the honey will have coated each piece of dough. Now, stir every 10 min. to prevent the pieces from sticking to each other. Takes abt.

an hour for baking. Pieces should be brown and when tested in cold water should remain firm and crisp. Pour onto moistened board, flatten, sprinkle nuts on top and cut into squares. Makes 40 pcs. and will keep.

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