My Grandma's Armenian Tell Kadayif

I am making my way through a book about food writing, and it suggests that blog postings about our childhood memories of food are commonplace and therefore - well, rather boring.

Humour me, then, please as this is a topic close to my heart.

This is about my Grandmother Mariam's Tell Kadayif, an Armenian version of a dessert commonly made in the Middle East. "Tell" means "string" in Armenian, due to the thin, long strands of the kadayif.