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The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean


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Just a note, this pide recipe is not the same as the pide that has a meat filling - this is the one that is like a rich bread.  You can see the finished product in an article I sent to http://www.bookofrai.com.  (October 27)

The dough for the filled pides (also known as "Karadeniz" (Black Sea) pide is more like a pizza dough.  They vary from place to place, some are even yeastless.  I'll get back with a couple.

Are you referring to the recipe I posted? The recipe I put in RecipeGullet is for plain and filled pide. I have made both with this recipe.

As for Borek dough, there are several different kinds of dough:

1. Some with flour, butter, egg and milk

2. Some with flour, water and eggs

3. Puff pastry

4. Filo pastry

5. Warka

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What is warka? I've seen several references to it.

Yes people do make different sort of boreks/pide at home with a variety of fillings. The typical restaurant pide dough is basically like a bread dough with a bit of oil added (like a pizza dough), some of them are yeastless but that's variable.

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What is warka?  I've seen several references to it.

There is an explanation of warka here (in the section on brik pastry).

I used to be able to buy ready-made warka when I was living on the border to France and did quite a bit of my shopping over the border. Now that I can't get it any longer, I have substituted ready-made yufka for it. Not quite the same, but certainly less time-consuming than making warka oneself.

And briks - if you've never had them - are wonderful and are definitely worth making.

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