Hello everyone!
I seriously need help, I feel defeated.
The first time I made baklava following an online recipe, it was absolute perfection. After repeating the same process and exact same ingredients, my baklava has the strangest, awful taste.
I firstly put pistachios, almonds and walnuts in a blender. Convert this to a bowl and add the cinnamon powder. I then melt unsalted butter in a pan and grease my deep baking tray and add the first layer of asda packaged phyllo pastry. Butter. Add another layer. Butter. Add another layer. I then sprinkle the nut mixture over the pastry, later again with phyllo on top and butter. I repeat this process until it has about 5 layers of nuts and finish by adding 4 layers of buttered phyllo on top. It then goes into the fridge for 20 mins to harden so I can score this easily before putting in the oven, I then put this in the oven at 170 degrees for 1 hr 15 mins. Whilst this is cooking, I prepare my syrup by adding 400ml of water to 150g of granulated sugar and some lemon zest. Like any other syrup. Nice and sweet.
Now this is where is is simply strange, as I take my baklava out of the oven to add the syrup, the strange *musty* smell starts to come out. As I pour the syrup over, it only enhances this smell. It is a little like slightly melted rubber with a hint of cinnamon. I know it sounds strange, it’s the strangest smell that I cannot put my finger on as to why I can’t detect which ingredient or process is causing this. When you taste and smell it, Its as if the baklava has been sat out for 4 weeks and has gone slightly musty and off. It leaves a really musty aftertaste in your mouth. I’ve changed the butter to ghee, added powdered sugar to the nut mix to sweeten it up, took the cinnamon stick out of the syrup process and it’s still the same.
PLEASE! If anyone has any suggestions at what this could be, because it’s defeated me from making my favourite dessert. Could it be the nut quality? The cinnamon powder roasting a nut it shouldn’t be paired with?! These are all fresh ingredients, I might add.
Thankyou!
I seriously need help, I feel defeated.
The first time I made baklava following an online recipe, it was absolute perfection. After repeating the same process and exact same ingredients, my baklava has the strangest, awful taste.
I firstly put pistachios, almonds and walnuts in a blender. Convert this to a bowl and add the cinnamon powder. I then melt unsalted butter in a pan and grease my deep baking tray and add the first layer of asda packaged phyllo pastry. Butter. Add another layer. Butter. Add another layer. I then sprinkle the nut mixture over the pastry, later again with phyllo on top and butter. I repeat this process until it has about 5 layers of nuts and finish by adding 4 layers of buttered phyllo on top. It then goes into the fridge for 20 mins to harden so I can score this easily before putting in the oven, I then put this in the oven at 170 degrees for 1 hr 15 mins. Whilst this is cooking, I prepare my syrup by adding 400ml of water to 150g of granulated sugar and some lemon zest. Like any other syrup. Nice and sweet.
Now this is where is is simply strange, as I take my baklava out of the oven to add the syrup, the strange *musty* smell starts to come out. As I pour the syrup over, it only enhances this smell. It is a little like slightly melted rubber with a hint of cinnamon. I know it sounds strange, it’s the strangest smell that I cannot put my finger on as to why I can’t detect which ingredient or process is causing this. When you taste and smell it, Its as if the baklava has been sat out for 4 weeks and has gone slightly musty and off. It leaves a really musty aftertaste in your mouth. I’ve changed the butter to ghee, added powdered sugar to the nut mix to sweeten it up, took the cinnamon stick out of the syrup process and it’s still the same.
PLEASE! If anyone has any suggestions at what this could be, because it’s defeated me from making my favourite dessert. Could it be the nut quality? The cinnamon powder roasting a nut it shouldn’t be paired with?! These are all fresh ingredients, I might add.
Thankyou!
ngwind of the North
