Here’s something funny. My mother used to kill herself, working all day to make that stuff.
My brother and I said, ‘Don’t you have any Oreos?’
I never liked it... tooooo sweet
I just read a time-saving baklava tip in a Lebanese-American cookbook: you don’t need to butter each layer of the phyllo; you can just cut the pastry into diamonds and pour the melted butter over the top and it will work its way between the layers as it bakes.
Have not tried this myself.
The only baklava I ever liked was one I made myself - cut way down on the honey syrup, increased the nuts and made the filling a bit softer and moister, more in the central European fashion.
We were at a middle Eastern restaurant a couple nights ago and tried a mabrumeh - basically a baklava done up in a twisted roll. Hard, dry, and too sweet.
Aw you guys were so rude to your poor mum. I will admit baklava is very sweet. Can’t have much of it at a time.