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In the Orthodox Church there are twelve major, the so-called great feasts. The most important and beloved by the people - it's Easter. About her say: "Easter - holiday holidays." Traditional dishes of the day is Easter cake, painted eggs and Easter curd (a special dish in the form of a truncated pyramid). And cake and Easter have a very wide variety of recipes. For example, you can cook "the king's cake", "cake custard", "almond cake" and so on

Preparation of some religious holidays, including Easter, are multi-day fasts, when people do not partake of meat, dairy products, eggs, and sometimes fish. Prepared in those days various meatless meals. This can be salads, soups, cereals, vegetables and the like. Meatless meals can be festive. Today we will prepare one of these dishes.

Ingredients:



1 cup of brewed coffee
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1 cup sugar

1 cup honey

1 cup walnuts

flour

1/3 tsp soda

salt

Boil a glass of very strong organic coffee. Then strain it through a sieve, so that the cake did not get the coffee grounds. Stir in the cooked coffee 1 cup sugar and add 1 cup of honey. Place the honey-coffee mixture on low heat and heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved and honey. Add 1/3 teaspoon of baking soda and a pinch of salt. Continuously stirring with a whisk, add flour until the consistency of sour cream. At the end of a ready-made dough, add 1 crushed walnuts. If you wish, you can add other nuts, lemon peel, raisins, and the like.

In the prepared baking dish pour the dough (do not fill it to the brim, as it still rises during baking). Bake in oven at 175-180 � for 50 minutes. Make sure that the top of the cake is not burnt. If it is already quite flushed, cover it with baking paper.

Ready remove cake from the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

We wish you a good appetite, and to meatless meals on your table were always as tasty as the "Coffee cake"?


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