Trin-square, small sheets of pasta. Galotrin is twin cooked in milk. Sugar, cinnamon and rosewater may be added.
Name - Recipe
Trin-square, small sheets of pasta. Galotrin is twin cooked in milk.
1 kg of village flour
1 tsp salt
water for kneading
Milk
Sift the flour with the salt. Add lukewarm water, a little at a time, and knead to make a dough. Cover it and leave it aside for a while. Roll out a thin, large-sized sheet of dough using a rolling pin and sprinkle it with plenty of flour. Wrap it in the rolling pin and cut it lengthwise with a sharp knife. This way the rolled sheet will be rolled out in several layers, where one is on top of the other. Cut them vertically into thin strips. When the thin strips are somewhat dry cook them in milk, so you will have galotrin. (MANRE 2006, 19)
Boiling.
Sugar, cinnamon and resetter may be added. (Eleni Christou)
Additional information and bibliography
A similar dish must be the Erişte prepared by Turkish Cypriots with pieces of pasta which they bake like rice pudding with milk and sugar. For flavouring, they put güldanlası (rose distillate) (information from Kadir Kaba, see Rizopoulou-Igoumenidou 2008).
Rizopoulou-Igoumenidou, E. (2008). "Dairy products in the annual cycle of traditional life in Cyprus", in The History of Greek Milk and its Products, 1st Workshop, Xanthi, 7/9 October 2005, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, Athens, 401-423.
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment: Department of Agriculture (ed.) (2006) Traditional Cypriot preparations, Publication 9/2006, Nicosia.
Varvara Yangou, Eleni Christou