The Pie Recipes

Ingredients

• ½ cup fine semolina flour
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 4 oz. cold butter, cut into ½” pieces
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
• zest from one medium orange
• 1 large egg
• 3 tablespoons plain yogurt
• ⅛ teaspoon almond extract OR Mahlab* (the preferred spice, which is the small pit of a wild sour cherry ground until fine. *available in some specialty food stores and Middle Eastern markets)
• 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1 cup Medjool dates, halved and pitted
• ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
• ¼ teaspoon orange blossom water
• ⅔ cup confectioners’ sugar
• ⅛ teaspoon ground cardamom
• 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
• 1 tablespoon orange zest
• ½ cup finely ground toasted walnuts