Medzmama never cooked or baked using a cookbook; when her daughters complained, she would answer, "What? Did God make the recipe?" She only measured "by the eye", or, as she put it, "Achku chap!" She baked and cooked intricate Armenian meals and pastries by her sixth, seventh and eighth sense!!! And what sense she had. Folks would come from all over to watch her and record what and how she baked, but no matter how carefully they watched, no one was ever able to replicate many of her dishes, and certainly not her paklava which she made from scratch, rolling out ten layers of paklava dough at once, using cornstarch to separate the layers. The flavor of her dishes was unbeatable!!!!
Thank you, Medzmama!
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