OOPS...

I hope no one tried to make Pahklava yesterday from the recipe I posted. There was a bit of a mistake in the ingredients, to wit, the 1/2 lb. of butter is NOT for the filling. It is for buttering the layers of dough, as mentioned in the recipe. My apologies to you and to Editor Nancy, who was not home when I finished the post and just caught the mistake this morning. Mea culpa.

Here is the corrected recipe:

Nancy's Armenian-Assyrian-Irish Pahklava

For the filling:                                                  For the syrup:

                   2 cups finely chopped walnuts                        2 cups sugar

                   1 tsp. cinnamon                                              1 cup water

                   3 tablespoons sugar                                       1/2 tsp.  lemon juice

                                                                                          Boil for 1 min., cool for 5 min.

1 package filo dough                                                           

1/2 lb. butter (melt butter in microwave)

In a rectangular baking pan put down 10 layers of filo dough. Brush butter on each layer.

Layer the filling evenly over the dough and pack down hard

Put the rest of the dough over the filling. Butter each layer.

Before baking, cut into diamond-shaped pieces. (make parallel cuts about 2 in. apart
     lengthwise in the longer direction, then make parallel diagonal cuts to get the diamond
     shapes. Dipping your knife in cold water will help make clean cuts.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Serve with syrup. Enjoy!