Awamat

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Ingredients:

• 8 cups pastry flour
• 1 qt. yougurt
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1 1/2 cups olive oil
• sugar syrup

Directions:

• Sift flour and mix with yougurt and soda. Knead well together. Heat olive oil until almost smoking.
• Drop dough by the teaspoon ful into hot oil. Fry only a few at a time. They quickly rise to the surface, brown, and are ready to be skimmed out of the fat.
• Drain on absorbent paper. When all are fried, diping only a few at a time in thin syrup. Serve the hot or cold.