Kolivo
wheat sweet served at weddings and burials.
Ingredients
- 1 lb wheat with husks
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1 cup walnuts or hazelnuts ground
- 1 cup sultanas golden raisins
- peppermint candy
Instructions
- Soak wheat overnight.
- Next morning boil until soft (about 1-1/2 to 2 hour in the same water. (watch closely as it burns very easily.)
- Add more liquid if necessary.
- By the time the wheat is soft, all the liquid should be used up.
- Put wheat through a grinder.
- Mix with 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar, ground nuts, and sultanas.
- On a round plate heap to a cone shape.
- Sprinkle confectioner's sugar thickly onto it.
- Decorate with pieces of peppermint.
- Serves 10-15.
