Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

6 tb Butter
1 1/2 c Water
1/2 ts Salt
1 1/2 c Flour
2 Eggs
1 Egg yolk
1 1/4 c Oil

---------------------------SYRUP--------------------------------
2 c Water
1 3/4 c Sugar
1 tb Lemon juice

Melt butter in saucepan. Add water with salt and bring to boil. Add
flour all at once and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with
wooden spoon, 1 to 2 minutes, until dough is shiny and leaves sides
of saucepan. Set aside to cool.

Add eggs and egg yolk to dough mixture, stirring to mix well. Knead 10
minutes. Oil palms of hands. Pinch off walnut size pieces of dough
and roll each piece into ball. Press to flatten slightly, then with
finger, indent middle of dough ball.

Heat remaining oil in skillet until medium hot.

Drop pastries into oil and fry until golden brown on both sides. Drain
well. Drop balls into Syrup. Let soak 15 minutes. Repeat with
remaining dough pieces, letting oil cool before cooking each batch.
Makes 20 pastries.

SYRUP - Combine water and sugar in saucepan. Add lemon juice and
bring to boil. Simmer 15 minutes until thin syrup is formed. Makes 1
1/2 cups.

Each pastry contains about: 149 calories; 101 mg sodium; 44 mg
cholesterol; 5 grams fat; 24 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams protein;
0.03 gram fiber.

VARIATIONS:

Vizier's Fingers - Proceed as with Lady's Navel, but shape dough into
finger-sized rolls. Fry and soak in Syrup as directed.

Beauty's Lips - Proceed as for Lady's Navel but shape dough by
pinching off large walnut-size pieces of dough. Flatten and fold each
in two to form "lips." Slit center, then fry and soak in Syrup as
directed.

Presented by: Rose Dosti, L.A. Times article, "Discreet Charms of
Sultan's Fingers, Lady's Navels", 2/9/95, page H4.

"The Turks have a way with pastry names. Lady's Navel, for instance,
is a fried puff pastry that is rolled into a round 'belly' shape
marked with a sensual dimple in the center."

Recipe By :

From: Dan Klepach Date: 06-16-95 (159) Fido:
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