Shredded pastry with nuts recipe

Kunafeh pastry looks like shredded wheat or fine vermicelli and it is sold in 450 g (1 lb) packets under the name of kadayifi fila. Kadayifi is the Greek name of this sweet – in Turkish it is known as Tel-kadayif, but both are misnomers derived from the Arab word for pancake ataif. In most Middle Eastern households even today kunafeh pastry is still made at home by the time-honoured process of passing a batter of flour and water through a brass-plated sieve on to a hot metal sheet. The dough sets in seconds and the shredded pastry is swept to one side.