Country Study Shared Lunch

On Thursday last week we had our country study shared lunch where we baked/cooked a famous meal from our country. Seeing as my country was Northern Cyprus I made a dessert called 'ladies fingers'. The dessert is 2 pieces of flaky pastry with whipped cream and jam in the middle. It also has a meringue paste on top. In Cyprus they are also called Daktyla Kirion.

Here is a recipe for the Ladies Fingers:

Daktyla Kirion/Ladies Fingers

Makes 16

Ingredients:

• Puff Pastry - 2 sheets (8 rectangles)
• Egg whites - 2
• Icing Sugar - around ½ cup
• Jam for filling - to serve
• Cream - 1 cup (whipped)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 - regular bake.
2. Cut 8 rectangles out of the pastry and put in the fridge. (Good pastry is cold pastry in a hot oven.)
3. While the oven is heating up beat 2 eggs until stiff peaks form. Add a little bit of icing sugar at a time until the mixture forms a sort of paste.
4. Put the icing sugar mixture into the fridge to cool while the pastry cooks.
5. When the oven is heated, bring the pastry rectangles out of the fridge and coat all of them with the icing sugar paste. Put them on an oven tray and cook for around 10-15 minutes or until they look cooked.
6. While they are cooking whip 1 cup of cream.  
7. Bring out of the oven once cooked and place on cooling rack. Cut them in half horizontally and fill with whipped cream and jam.
8. Serve and ENJOY!