Fanouropita

By common consent, Kyria Rena makes an extremely delicious fanouropita. […] Here, therefore, is the way to make fanouropita which, as she used to say, has to consist of 7 ingredients.

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The parked cars stretched for kilometers in each direction. Next to them – on the highway – walked families of the faitful, carrying fanouropites (cakes dedicated to the saint) and candles taller than a tall man, pushing baby strollers or wheelchairs, all hoping that the saint would give them what they sought, would reveal what they had lost.

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[T]hey cook fanouropita, a cake exchanged for the guarantee to track down lost items under the auspices of St. Fanourios, and they make votive offerings both tangible and spiritual. […] “And you started cooking! What are you making Auntie, cake?” asked Greg lightly. / “No my child, I’m preparing a fanouropita for the saint and I’m praying!” answered his aunt.

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[…] the fact that a fanouropita cake’s got to have either seven or nine ingredients, because they’re lucky numbers in Greece, the fact that my fanouropitas usually have seven, because I skip the nuts and raisins, but sometimes it’s nine, because I like to add brandy and olives now, sliced up thinly, […]

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