Weekend Cooking: Apple Nut Pita (Pita Sa Orasima)

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• ¾ cup sweet butter
• grated peel of one lemon
• 7 egg yolks
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1¼ pounds flour

Cream butter, add sugar, lemon peel and soda. Mix well, add yolks and beat again. Add flour gradually, beating dough constantly until well blended. Chill.

FIlling

¾ cup ground walnuts

1 cup sugar

7 egg whites beaten stiff

2 grated apples

Mix nuts and sugar. Add them gradually to beaten egg whites. Then fold in apples. Roll out two-thirds of the dough and line sides and bottom of an ungreased baking pan. Add filling. Roll out remaining dough and lattice over top. Bake in 250 degree oven 45 minutes to one hour.

From: Recipes from American National by American National Insurance Company