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take phyllo dough rolls out of freezer and prepare the syrup:
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dissolve sugar in water in a a pan..add lemon..put on stove a let it boil until volume is reduced to half.
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Take off stove..let cool.
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After phylloo is thawed open the roll and spread the sheets on the kitchen counter and preheat oven to 325.
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Spray all the top most sheet with cooking spray and then flip it on the other side so that you have the oil in between the first two sheets
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Mix raisin with ground nuts and start adding thr mixture at the beginning of the roll
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Start rolling the first two sheets tightly over the nut mixture till the end
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Carry the roll as it is onto a greased pyrex oven pan..cover with damp towel so that it doesn't dry.
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Repeat with all the sheets.
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After rolling all 2 phyllo tolls (40sheet =20 rolls) Carefully cut through the rolls with a sharp knife to divide each Into 4 or more rolls.
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Melt butter in microwave and cover the surface of the rolls.
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Make sure it is evenly distributed.
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Put into oven and let cook until surface is golden.
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Take out of oven and add cold syrup slowly onto each piece.
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You don't have to add all syrup.
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Syrup should saturate the baklawa but not exceed that (otherwise baklawa will be wet).
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You can put baklawa on a strain before adding syrup to make sure you remove excess syrup.
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Otherwise, you can quickly transfer bakalwa to a new serving plate to make sure they don't stay with excess syrup.
