Ingredients

• 2 cups oil (1 rafinated, 1 olive oil)
• 1 cup orange juice
• Zest of one lemon
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tspns baking powder
• 1 kg soft flour
• 1 cup fine semolina
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1/2 tspn ground clove
• 1/2 tspn soda, diluted with some brandy

Instructions

• Mix oil, sugar, orange juice and water. Then add the rest of the ingredients. Mould pieces of dough of about 2 spoons and shape them into flattened oval shapes.
• Place them on an oiled or non-stick baking sheet and bake them in 150 -175 C for 35 minutes or until brown.
• Turn of heat and let the sweets into the oven.
• Prepare the syrup as follows. Bring sugar and water into boil. Boil the mixture with the cloves and the cinnamon. Boil for 10 mins.
• Then add honey and let the syrup boil for another 5 mins. Remove from heat.
• Using a wooden skewer skewer each sweet in the middle. This will help the syrup to be absorbed easier by each sweet.
• Pour the syrup over the sweets and let it be absorbed. Sprinkle with walnut mixture.