Greek Custard Pie
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Have you ever been in a Greek Cafe or Bakery and seen those delicious custard slices that are wrapped in file pastry.....
Ingredients:
4 cups of milk
3/4 cup of sugar
3/4 cup of fine semolina
3/4 cup 180g of unsalted butter
Grated rind of 1/2 lemon
Cinnamon stick
3 eggs lightly beaten
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 packet of filo pastry
1 quantity of syrup ...see below
Method:
1) Mix semolina, sugar, milk ,lemon rind ,Cinnamon stick in a saucepan
2) Heat until thickens, stirring constantly
3) let custard bubble gently over low heat for 5 minutes. Keep stirring.
4) Take from heat and remove Cinnamon stick let cool
5) Stir in vanilla essence and eggs
6) place half the filo pastry in a baking dish brushing each sheet with unsalted butter.
7 ) pour in custard and top with remaining sheets of pastry. Brushing each sheet with unsalted butter.
8) bake in a moderate oven for around 45 minutes or until just brown.
9) pour cooled syrup over hot pie . Store in fridge.
Syrup:
Place 1 cup of sugar in a small saucepan add 1 cup of water, 1 strip of lemon rind and 1 Cinnamon stick.
Mix then bring to the boil then simmer for 10 minutes and then cool
remove lemon strip and cinnamon stick and pour cooled syrup over hot custard pie.
Note : this syrup can be used for a number of recipes including poured over a plain cake while still in the cake pan
Ingredients:
4 cups of milk
3/4 cup of sugar
3/4 cup of fine semolina
3/4 cup 180g of unsalted butter
Grated rind of 1/2 lemon
Cinnamon stick
3 eggs lightly beaten
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 packet of filo pastry
1 quantity of syrup ...see below
Method:
1) Mix semolina, sugar, milk ,lemon rind ,Cinnamon stick in a saucepan
2) Heat until thickens, stirring constantly
3) let custard bubble gently over low heat for 5 minutes. Keep stirring.
4) Take from heat and remove Cinnamon stick let cool
5) Stir in vanilla essence and eggs
6) place half the filo pastry in a baking dish brushing each sheet with unsalted butter.
7 ) pour in custard and top with remaining sheets of pastry. Brushing each sheet with unsalted butter.
8) bake in a moderate oven for around 45 minutes or until just brown.
9) pour cooled syrup over hot pie . Store in fridge.
Syrup:
Place 1 cup of sugar in a small saucepan add 1 cup of water, 1 strip of lemon rind and 1 Cinnamon stick.
Mix then bring to the boil then simmer for 10 minutes and then cool
remove lemon strip and cinnamon stick and pour cooled syrup over hot custard pie.
Note : this syrup can be used for a number of recipes including poured over a plain cake while still in the cake pan
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must give it a go 
Thanks for sharing
