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Baklava

1 box filo leaves
1 pound unsalted butter
whole cloves

1/2 pound (more or less) walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp cinammon

1 cup honey
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 Tbsp lemon juice (more or less to taste)

Melt the butter.  Mix walnuts, 1/2 cup sugar and the cinammon.

Butter bottom of pan with pastry brush.  Lay one filo leaf on bottom
of pan.  Butter filo.

Repeat 12 times on bottom.  Put some walnut mixture on.  Lay four
filo leaves (with butter).  More walnuts.  Four more filo.  More
walnuts .

When you run out of walnuts, 12 more filo leaves.  Refrigerate for
an hour.

Make one-inch wide cuts through the baklava, then diagonally about
every one-inch.

Place a clove in the middle of each Baklave diamond.  Bake at 350
degrees for about an your or until brown.

While baking, mix 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, 1 cup honey until sugar
is dissolved.  Pour syrup mixture on and allow to cool.

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