"Small recipe book of traditional cuisine"

Melomakarona

Ingredients

4 glasses of olive oil

1 ½ glasses

of

sugar

1 glass of water

boiled with cinnamon

1 glass of lemon

or

orange juice

2 tea spoons

of

baking soda

1 glass of grappa

1 tea spoon of

baking powder

flour

For the syrup

1 glass of honey

1 glass of sugar

1 glass of water

1 stick of cinnamon

sesame

and

cinnamon in powder

Preparation

We whip the oil with the sugar, then we had the cinnamon,  the baking soda diluted in the lemon juice, the baking powder diluted in grappa and the flour.

We mix all together and we prepare the biscuits  that we will bake in the oven at medium temperature. When ready we will let them cool down.

We roast the sesame together with some cinnamon. We prepare the syrup and while boiling at low fire, we dip the biscuits and after a minute we drain them.

Put them on a serving dish and pour the sesame and cinnamon on top.