🇸🇾 Syria
Pasta Flora
In Damascus and Aleppo pastry shops, pasta flora means apricot or quince jam under a golden lattice.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 35 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
10 people
✨ What makes it special
Short crumbly crust, thick apricot or quince jam, and the trademark woven lattice.
Ingredients
- 250 gbutter
- 150 gsugar
- 2 eggs
- 450 gflour
- 1 tspbaking powder and vanilla
- 350 gapricot or quince jam
Method
- 1
Work butter, sugar, eggs, and flour into a soft dough; chill 30 minutes.
- 2
Press two-thirds into a tart pan and spread thickly with jam.
- 3
Roll the rest, cut ribbons, and weave the lattice.
- 4
Bake at 180°C until deep gold; cool fully before slicing.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 10