Baklava

• Ingredients
  
• 1 lb. sweet butter, 1 lb. filo
  
• 3 cups of chopped walnuts
  
• 1 1/2 cups of chopped almonds
  
• 2 1/2 cups sugar, 3 tsp. cinnamon
  
• 1 tsp. nutmeg, 1/8 tsp. ground cloves
  
• 3/4 cup of honey
  
• 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
  
• 1/2 cinnamon stick, 1 cup of water
  

• Directions
  
• Melt butter.
  
• Mix nuts, 6 Tbsp. of sugar, 3 tsp. cinnamon, 1/8 tsp. cloves and 1 tsp. nutmeg together until well blended.
  
• Add 3 Tbsp. metled butter to nut mixture and blend well.
  
• Brush bottom of 10" x 15" x 2" pan with butter.
  
• Place one layer of filo on bottom of pan and brush with butter. Repeat process until 12 layers have been used.
  
• Sprinke 1/2 cup of nut mixture over buttered filo.
  
• Cover the nut mixture in the pan with another layer of filo and brush with butter. Repeat twice (3 layers of filo).
  
• Sprinke 1/2 cup of nut mixture over buttered filo.
  
• Repeat process until all nuts are used.
  
• Cover top layer of nuts with remaining filo (not more than 12 layers of filo), brushing each with butter.
  
• With a sharp knife, cut through top layers of filo only, into diamond-shaped pieces.
  
• Sprinkle with water and bake at 325 degrees for approximately one hour.
  
• While baking baklava, boil water, remaining sugar and cinnamon stick 12 minutes.
  
• Add lemon juice and remove from heat.
  
• Add honey, stir and let cool. Pour over baklava when baklava is done baking.