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Preparation:
1) Preheat the oven to 400° F. Beat the butter,
sugar, and eggs together in a bowl until frothy. Mix
the nuts with the cinnamon and cloves. Dissolve the
baking soda in brandy and pour it into the nut
mixture.
2) Sift the flour and baking powder into the
bowl with the butter mixture, adding the nuts,
rusks, and milk. Mix all the ingredients together to
form a smooth batter. Press this into a greased and
floured baking pan and place in the oven. After five
minutes, reduce the heat to 300° F, and bake the
cake for around one hour. Remove from oven and leave
to cool.
3) To make the syrup, heat the water in a saucepan
and dissolve the sugar. Bring to a boil several
times, then add the lemon juice.
4) Pour the syrup
over the cake and wait until it has been absorbed
before cutting it into generous slices and arranging
it on a plate. The cake can then be dusted with
confectioner's sugar depending on individual taste.
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Once the Olympic flame was lit, all acts of
war had to cease and once the participants
had vowed to abide by the rules, the games
could begin. Olympia is situated in the
heart of the green hill country, surrounded
by magnificent acacia woods, splendid plane
trees, and fragrant eucalyptus groves in the
region of Ilia, where the Kladhios River
flows into the Alfios. Even in Mycenaean
times there was a settlement at the foot of
the Hill of Cronos. Finds indicate a cult of
Hippodameia and Pelops, who won his beloved
here with the help of Poseidon in a chariot
race against her murderous father, Enomaus.
Greek newcomers to the region at the end of
the 2nd millennium B.C. brought with them a
cult of Zeus. Offerings from as far back as
1000 B.C. refer to games where spreading
branches and tripods were awarded as
trophies for the winners. Pausanias reported
two versions of the legend of how the
ancient games were founded in Olympia.
According to one version, Zeus first
organized the games between the gods in
Olympia after his victory over his father,
Cronos. At these games, Apollo won the
pentathlon among other things. Other sources
state that Heracles, the son of Zeus,
restarted the games, located the site for
the first games of the gods, and challenged
his brother to a competition. Thus Zeus as
ruler of Olympus was linked with the games
from a very early stage.
