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Armenian cuisine: choreg recipe

  Quote from Dining in Diaspora - read the article and the accompanying recipe By Treasured Armenian Recipes, 1949, Detroit Women's Chapter of the Armenian General Benevolent Union 10 eggs 2 cups sugar 2 cups milk 2 cups butter 15 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 teaspoons ground mahleb 2 packages of dry yeast to make yeast cakes 1 tablespoon salt  Sift flour and put in a large bowl. Make a hole in the center. Dissolve yeast: combine each package of dry yeast with a 1/2 cup warm water in a measuring cup, add 1 tsp. sugar and whisk to combine. Cover the top with a plastic wrap. Wait 10 minutes until the yeast starts to get foamy, which is how you’ll know it’s active (and not dead) and ready to be used. Melt the butter, beat the eggs and pour all of this into the hole in the flour. Add the rest of the ingredients. Blend the flour with liquid gradually, first with spoon, then with your hands. Knead the dough for about 1/2 hour or until your hands stay free of dough. Cov...

Personal wellness

 This is from a horoscope and it's really nice reminder for us to assess our connections and relationships and figure out what's working, what's draining our energy and make some adjustments. There's no question that people are important to each other, but for you, people are really, really important. You draw strength and energy from interactions, though, of course, they can be draining too. It's imperative for you to be engaged in a peopled world in order to feel fulfilled. So take a look at just how fulfilled you feel (or don't feel) right now. An idea or two for how to improve things will likely occur to you.