Recipe ingredients and directions:
2 qts. applesauce
1/4 cup sugar
1 qt. l00% grape juice
2-1/4 cups flour
Place applesauce into 4-quart saucepan. Blend small amount of flour (1/2 cup) in 1 cup of
grape juice in jar and shake. Put through strainer into applesauce. Repeat process until all
flour and grape juice is used up. Blend. Bring to a boil stirring constantly until mixture
thickens. Add sugar and stir while boiling for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Place 4 sheets of
newspaper on table with 3O"x30" wide cotton sheet of cloth on top. Pour 1/2 mixture on one sheet.
Spread evenly with long, butcher knife. Repeat the same with rest of mixture. Let set on table
for 7 hours then hang cloth by edges for 5 hours. Then turn cloth and hang by opposite end and leave
overnight. Check after 12 hours to see if completely dry. Peel off by dampening back of sheet of
cloth which is face down on table. Stretch four sides to loosen. Turn over and peel bastekh from
cloth starting from one end. Cut bastekh into desired pieces. Arrange pieces on clean cloth one
layer at a time folding cloth over each layer. Store in refrigerator in plastic bag.
Category: Armenian Recipes