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A dessert with cream in filo pastry and syrup. It was customary to serve it during cheesefare week.
Name - Origin
Γαλακτομπούρεκο.
For the preparation of galatopoureko, housewives would prepare and roll out filo pastry sheets, spread them with milk skin (milk butter) and place half of them on the baking dish. Then, they would spread pastry cream on top and cover with the rest of the filo sheets. The galatopoureko would be baked in the oven and served with syrup (Kypri - Protopapa 2003, 281-282).
Find the full recipe for Galatopoureko in the RECIPES section.
Functional and symbolic role
It was customary on non-fasting days.
Consumed especially during the Cheesefare week.
Additional information and bibliography
Kypri Th. - Protopapa K. A. (2003), Traditional pastries of Cyprus. Their use and significance in customary life, Publications of the Centre for Scientific Research, XVIII, Nicosia.
Demetra Demetriou, Petroulla Hadjittofi, Argyro Xenophontos
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