Baklava - No Honey - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb phyllo dough
2 lbs walnuts
1 cup sugar
1 lb unsalted butter
2 tablespoons rose water
16 ounces Karo light corn syrup

Preparation

MIx finely chooped walnuts, sugar and 1 heaping T rosewater set aside.
Render butter and skim off curdle.
Butter cookie sheets with curdle.
Lay 1 sheet dough & butter entirely.
Place another sheet over this and butter the ends.
Mound nut mixture along the short end of the dough and roll up.
Crimp the ends of the roll and place on cookie sheet
Place rolls tightly against each other
When sheet is full, butter the tops.
Diagonal cut while raw.
Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour (brown).
Syrup - In a sauce pan, mix 1 bottle of white Karo syrup lite with a little water and 1 heaping T rosewater. Boil.
Apply to bakliva while hot.
Let cooll completely before storinn in air tight plastic container. May be frozen.