Tulumba (Albanian Version) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter (we prefer butter) or 2 tablespoons margarine, melted (we prefer butter)
1 cup flour
3 tablespoons water
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups olive oil, for frying
Syrup
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups water
1 teaspoon lemon juice

Preparation

SYRUP:
Put the sugar, water and lemon juice into a saucepan, and after melting the sugar by stirring, allow it to boil until moderately thick.
Set aside to cool.
PASTRY:
Heat the margarine in a saucepan, add the water and salt and bring to the boil.
Reduce heat and add the flour at once.
Stir the mixture constantly with a wooden spoon and continue until mixture leaves the sides of the pan and forms a ball.
This should take 6 minutes, then remove pan from heat and set aside to cool.
When cool, add the eggs and knead for approximately 10 minutes.
Using a pastry bag with a large nozzle or a serrated spoon, put 7-8 pastries in a pan containing the heated olive oil.
Start frying the pastry over low heat, increase heat when pastry puffs up a bit and fry until golden.
Remove fried pastry with a perforated spoon, draining away the oil, then put into the syrup.
Strain off the syrup, place tulumba on serving plate and serve when cool.