Homemade Melomakarona 500 grams

 The melomakarono! The favorite Greek Christmas cake in its best version! Soft in feeling and honeyed as it should be, it follows the traditional political recipe and fills our house with Christmas scents!

It is made from wheat flour, semolina, oil, orange juice and honey, sugar, zest or orange juice, brandy, cinnamon and other spices, honey and water. And of course it is sprinkled with plenty of Greek walnuts!

HISTORY "FROM GOLD" BEHIND THE PRODUCT

Etymologically, melomakarona come from the combination of the words honey + macaroni. As far as "spaghetti" is concerned, the mind of the historian goes not to the Italian spaghetti that drives young and old crazy, but to the medieval "spaghetti". In other words, at the funeral dinner that was dedicated to a loved one who passed away. There, attendees ate a small pie, a small piece of bread to be exact in the shape of today's melomakarono. They ate it and wished for "happiness", that is, the happiness of the dead. After all, for the ancient Greeks, whoever left life did not go to paradise but simply "moved" to the islands of Makari, to some very distant and certainly beautiful islands that lived forever!

   Apart from the small pieces of bread, in the funeral dinners of antiquity one also found honey. Honey, after all, symbolized the good life and everything we wish fate to bring us. And the more one ate, the luckier one would be!

  So it was at one of these dinners where, unknown how, a piece of bread dipped in honey. That's it! Melomakarono was a fact! Later, it was established by the Greeks of Asia Minor as the sweet of the Twelfth Day with the name "palm trees". From then until today it is the favorite Christmas sweet!

  Later, the Latins used the term "spaghetti" to describe their famous spaghetti! From the Middle Ages onwards, in France and England, the word "macaroon" describes a type of cookie with almonds, the well-known, delicious and colorful "macaroon"!