Laz Böreği in Turkish or Galaktoboureko in Greek is a dessert made with custard and filo. Unlike Napoleons or Mille-Feuille, the custard is baked in the pastry. This dessert is a specialty in the region of Rize Turkey off the coast of the Black Sea where my father-in-laws family originates from.
In Albania, my grandmother said that people would make baklava with a custard filling using milk and trahana because the walnuts were expensive back when she was a young girl, they called it qumeshtor.
My grandma actually made baklava with homemade filo dough, could you just imagine that? Making super thin layers of dough like that, she was a really hard working lady, and I can only imagine how delicious it was.
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