Also known as: Măcinici, Sfinţişori, Romanian Martyrs' Pastries
About this dish
Figure-of-eight dough pastries boiled in syrup with walnuts, or baked and glazed with honey, made on 9 March.
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Ingredients
🌾500g plain flour
💧About 250ml water
🧂A pinch of salt
🍬200g sugar
🌰150g walnuts, ground
🍋Zest of 1 lemon
🌿1 tsp ground cinnamon
Method
Serves 2
1
Knead the flour, salt and water into a firm dough, then roll thin ropes and shape them into small figures of eight.
2
Let them dry on a floured tray for a few hours or overnight.
3
Bring 2 litres of water to the boil with the sugar and lemon zest.
4
Drop in the mucenici and simmer until they float and are cooked through, about 15 minutes.
5
Stir in the ground walnuts and cinnamon and serve warm or cold.
✓ What Makes it Authentic
Mucenici are made for the feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste on 9 March; in Moldova they are baked and brushed with honey, while in Muntenia they are small shapes boiled in sweet walnut 'soup'.
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