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I couldn't abide acquirements to baker Turkish dishes in a Presbyterian abbey adopting money for Puerto Rico.
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The newsroom buzz artlessly rang and I best it up. It was a woman, Gloria Knox, of the Aboriginal Presbyterian Abbey of the Covenant, who was acquisitive we could put article in the contest calendar. Happens all the time.
She was cogent me about the accident and I was about to explain that she bare to accelerate article in autograph and we'd be blessed to put it in the adapted calendars of events. Then she bent my ear: Turkish affable chic ... at a Presbyterian abbey ... as a fundraiser for Puerto Rico? Wait, wait, wait, wait.
This was aliment cavalcade gold, cloudburst out of my phone. The bodies at the Erie Turkish Cultural Center and the abbey accept a acceptable accord congenital on bounded geography — the abbey is in the average of Gannon University's campus and abounding Turkish acceptance abstraction there and appear abbey functions advised for students, such as abstraction nights and weekly, bargain dinners.
For this accurate event, the cultural center's controlling director, Bunyamin Aysan, said he bare a area for the fundraiser he capital to host — because seven ago, Americans had beatific money to advice Turkey afterwards a adverse convulsion there.
"Nine bodies died in my village," Aysan said. "We accept what bodies in Puerto Rico are activity through with no water, no eating, no transportation, anything. It doesn't bulk how far abroad from us they are. We can do it calm and appearance God's accepted power."
So, they asked the abbey if they could use its active Knox Hall to date the affable chic and absolute Turkish dinner, including salad, warm, bendable Average Eastern bread, a algid augment dish, baldheaded meat and a axiological bouillon that could balmy the affection and soul.
But first, three adorable Turkish women would appearance us how they accomplish three added acceptable dishes, recipes follow.
Five things I learned:
1. The Bosnian Borek was annihilation abbreviate of sorcery, and annular and airy Kija Kantarevic, 40, reveled in the absorption she got aback she formed and adequate and continued and formed and adequate and continued a cantaloupe-sized brawl of chef into a 2-by-3-foot area you could see her duke through. She arrive three American women up on date to advice her amplitude it and told them not to anguish if they tore a aperture in the dough.
"Don't aberration out," she said in her abundant accent, laughing. "Don't aberration out."
She acclimated a straight, annular board roller, at atomic 2 anxiety long. Aback asked area she got it, she looked up and smiled. "Home Depot," she said, and 60 bodies laughed.
2. Borek is a meat admixture captivated in a few actual attenuate layers of chef and baked. She acclimated alone a admixture of beef, onions, candied paprika alkali and pepper in her demonstration, but said anybody in her ancestors brand their borek bushing differently. Her babe brand feta cheese, her son brand spinach, her bedmate brand chopped meat instead of ground. She said others ability use pork or lamb, but she prefers arena beef.
Also, she added, some like to baker the admixture afore wrapping it in the chef and baking the Borek, but she said she thinks it's added aged to let it all baker together.
I appetite to accomplish Borek immediately. She has a shallow, asperous baking basin that fits her accomplished accumulation perfectly. I'm not abiding what pan I'd use, but I anticipate I'd try to aloof put it on a baking sheet.
As to why it's "Bosnian," she said that the Turks were in Bosnia for hundreds of years, and she's from Bosnia but considers herself Turkish. So, there you are.
3. The Sekerpare (Turkish Semolina Accolade in Syrup) were fall-apart delicious, and I'm a accoutrement for annihilation sweet, wet and lemony. The woman who fabricated them said you stop abacus abrade to the chef aback it feels "soft like an earlobe." She said the name in Turkish means, literally, "piece of delight," or "piece of heaven."
Both women who formed with chef alloyed it application their easily to apperceive if it was ready. Kantarevic approved to alpha with gloves on but removed them about immediately. "I accept to feel the dough," she said.
When Nejar was authoritative the cookie dough, she mixes it with one hand, somehow befitting one duke apple-pie and dry. "When I blow the chef with my apple-pie hand, and it doesn't stick, it's ready," she said.
4. The accolade alarm for semolina flour, which is readily accessible in the bigger grocery stores. It's coarse, fabricated from adamantine durum wheat, and has a little bit of a candied acidity and offers a cake-like texture. At the dinner, they were adage you could use chrism of wheat, but I anticipate that would booty about the aforementioned bulk of accomplishment as award semolina.
5. What to say about the Yayla Soup? The woman alleged it a Turkish "comfort food," and said it's article you ability be served in a hospital or by your mother if you weren't activity well. I'll alarm it an acquired taste, and I ate it and acquired it in a fashion — but it was way out of my abundance zone.
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But of course, that was the point of the accomplished experience.
Jennie Geisler writes about her adventures as a home baker every Wednesday. You can ability her at 870-1885. Accelerate email to jennie.geisler@timesnews.com. Chase her on Cheep at twitter.com/@ETNgeisler.
Bosnian Borek
For the dough:
2 cups flour, sifted
½ cup balmy water
¼ cup broiled adulate or olive oil
1 teaspoon blush Himalayan salt
For the filling:
1½ batter arena beef
3 average onions, minced
1 tablespoon candied paprika
1 tablespoon blush Himalayan salt
1 tablespoon atramentous pepper
Feta cheese and/or spinach, optional
Yogurt, for serving
In a ample bowl, mix the flour, balmy water, broiled adulate or olive oil and alkali with a board beanery until it comes calm in a achromatic mass. Add added water, a tablespoon at a time, as needed, to accompany the capacity together.
Remove the chef to a floured assignment apparent and aerate until bland and pliable. Cover with artificial blanket and set abreast to blow for at aftermost 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 375 F. Mix arena beef (see note), onions, paprika, alkali and pepper (and/or feta and appearance if using) in a ample basin until well-combined and set aside.
Remove the adequate chef to a agilely floured assignment apparent and cycle out into a ample rectangle. Abode floured fists beneath the chef and acclaim cull sections of the chef out to anatomy a actual attenuate 2-by-3-foot rectangle. Booty affliction not to breach holes in the dough, but if you do, compression them together. Let the chef blow for 10 account or so to dry out a little.
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Brush the pastry chef all over with broiled adulate or olive oil. Abode a row of the meat bushing forth the best bend of the rolled-out pastry dough, abrogation a 1-inch border. Accompany the basal of the pastry up over the meat bushing and cycle it up a few times into a continued sausage-shaped roll. Slice it off the blow of the chef until you accept a continued snake-like rope.
Lay one end of the cycle in the average of a anointed baking pan. Blanket the cycle about in a circling in the average of the pan.
Repeat with actual bushing and chef until the pan is full, or you run out of ingredients. Besom the top of the pastry with broiled adulate or olive oil.
Bake 35 to 45 account until golden-brown. Cut into wedges and serve with a ample atom of yogurt.
Kija Kantarevic
Note: Some bodies like to baker the bushing afore architecture the Borek. Kantarevic believes you lose acidity that way.
Sekerpare (Turkish Semolina Accolade in Syrup)
Syrup:
2½ cups sugar
3 cups of water
1 tablespoon of auto juice
Dough:
1 stick of butter, melted
½ cup delicate sugar
½ cup semolina (can use chrism of wheat)
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
3 tablespoons yogurt
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To adapt syrup, amalgamate amoroso and baptize in a average pot and stir. Aback the amoroso dissolves and the baptize starts to boil, add auto juice. Aback the abstract thickens, abolish from calefaction and let air-conditioned in refrigerator.
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Combine broiled butter, delicate sugar, semolina, one accomplished egg and one egg white (reserve yolk) and actual capacity (except flour) in a ample bond bowl. Add abrade little by little until you get a bendable dough.
Roll chef into 2-inch egg-shaped pieces and abode them 2 inches afar on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Beat egg yolk and besom it over the acme of cookies. Use a angle to draw curve lengthwise on anniversary cookie.
Bake accolade 30 minutes, or until they are aureate brown. Booty them out of the oven and cascade algid abstract over anniversary cookie and let them blot the abstract for 2 to 4 hours. (The abstract should be algid and the accolade should be hot.)
Serve.
— Nigora Kuchkarova, 31
Yayla Soup
½ cup white rice
1 egg
2 cups apparent yogurt
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
2 tablespoons broiled mint
Put the rice in a covered bucket with 3 cups of baptize and accompany to boiling. Reduce the heat, and baker the rice until soft. Abolish from heat. There should be baptize extra that the rice did not absorb.
In a bowl, barrel calm the egg, yogurt and abrade until able-bodied attenuated and creamy. Accomplish abiding there are no lumps.
Add a baby bulk of the hot rice baptize at a time, active consistently to anticipate the egg from affable and yogurt from separating. Once the yogurt admixture is warm, add it slowly, stirring, aback into the rice mixture, actuality accurate not to abstracted the yogurt mixture.
Once the soup is absolutely combined, calefaction oil in a baby bucket and add mint. Activity and abolish from calefaction aback excellent has captivated the oil. Add the admixture to the soup, whisking until combined.
Heat through, bringing the soup to a abscess and acquiesce it to thicken. If it's too thick, add baking water.
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— Michelle Aysan, 38
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