I'm going to make Tsoureki next month and wondering if anyone has an heirloom T&T recipe

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richard-in-cincy

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I had this year's ago at a friends apartment in college that was sent by his mom from her grandmother's sister, etc. etc. I could never track down the recipe through that line. But just thought I"d ask if there are any really good T&T recipes in the group.

 
Thanks for the offer. I have been searching for some time...

and have what appears to be a very authentic recipe from a Greek site since it contains mastic and mahleb (both of which are in my pantry, imagine that!) that I have in line to make unless I hear about someone's Greek great-grandmother's recipe or some such. smileys/smile.gif

I remember this bread as being the link between rich pound cake and yeast bread. It was so amazing. Toasted, slathered with butter and cinnamon sugar? Yeah.

 
They are both Eastern rich yeasted breads...

but different.

Mahleb is dried cherry pits that are ground to a powder for flavoring

Mastic is a resin. It's the secret ingredient in turkish ice cream that it never melts. smileys/smile.gif It's also chewed for chewing gum. It is a very unique taste, not "Pine-sol" at all.

 
Oh! I have the mahleb spice. Bought it for some Israeli bread. Do you need some? I've got a whole

bottle here and after returning the Israeli cook book to the library, promptly forgot about I had it--like so many things.

No...I don't want guards for my rain gutter. Do not call me again.

 
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