Ingredients

• 1/2 pound butter or margarine
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup farina (cream of wheat)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Zest of one lemon, finely grated
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup roasted slivered almonds

Instructions

• Beat butter or margarine with an electric mixer.
• Add eggs and sugar. Beat for 4 to 5 minutes.
• Mix flour and farina and add to mixture.
• Add vanilla extract, lemon zest, and baking powder.
• Pour batter into a 10x14 pan and bake for 45 minutes at 200 degrees in oven or until golden brown.
• Remove ravani from oven and immediately cut it into strips of two inches in width.
• Boil sugar, water and lemon juice for 5 minutes to make the syrup.
• Pour cool syrup all over hot ravani.
• Cover ravani with a towel and let it stay overnight.
• When ready to serve, cut ravani into diamond shapes and decorate with roasted slivered almonds.