- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- ¾ cup olive oil
- ½ cup orange juice
- ½ cup brandy
- ½ cup raisins (or crushed walnuts)
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. clove powder
- backing powder
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Mix all the ingredients in a mixer.
Grease a pan with olive oil and spread on it a little sugar and
flour.
Pour the mixture into the greased pan.
Bake in medium oven for about an hour.
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According to custom, the ingredients should be either 7 or 9.
Women in Skopelos make this pie once a year, on the eve of Saint
Fanourios name day, every 26th of August. They bring their pies to the
church of Saint Fanourios, where the priest blesses them with a nice
ceremony. After the Mass, the pies are cut and everybody is
welcome to taste them.
This is a really interesting custom, so if you happen to be on
Skopelos this day, do not forget to visit one of the 3 churches of Saint
Fanourios which exist here, to watch the ceremony and taste the
different pies. The Mass begins at about 19.00'.
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