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ASPARAGUS WITH HOLLANDAISE SAUCE

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Ingredients

1 small can green asparagus
Sauce
2 egg yolks
salt
lemon juice
1 small can shrimp tails
2 tbsp water
100 g softened butter
chopped dill

Method
Measure yolks and water into water into a small saucepan or steel bowl. Put the bowl over hot water in a double boiler. Heat slowly, beating well all the time until thick. Add softened butter in small lumps, beating well all the time. Flavour with salt and a few drops of lemon juice. Add shrimps and chopped dill. Pour the sauce over the warmed asparagus garnish with lemon wedges.

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Pears in Red Wine

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups red wine claret or burgundy
3 slices of lemon
3 cloves
1/2 cup white sugar
5cm (2in) piece cinnamon bark
6 medium, firm pears

Method

Place wine, lemon, cloves, cinnamon and sugar in a saucepan. When boilling, add peeled pears and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove pears to a bowl and continue to boil the wine for 10 hot wine over pears and allow to stand until warm, turn fruit often. Serve with ice-cream.

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Bread Custard Pudding

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Ingredients

5-6 slices of stale bread (wholewheat bread)
1 cup raisins or 1/2 cup raisins mixed with 1/2 cup sultans or 1 cup mixed fruit
1 tsp grated orange rind
1 tsp powdered cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
3 cups diluted evaporated milk
2 tbsp butter
red currant jelly or jam for glazing

Method
Cut off crusts from bread slices, cut each slice into squares and butter them generously on one side. Grease with butter an ovenproof dish 1 quart or 36 oz pyrex dish or a dish 17 cm across (6 1/2 inches) and 7.5cm (2 3/4 inches) deep.
Mix orange rind and cinnamon with the dried fruit. Scatter some dried fruit on bottom of dish and place over them some pieces of bread, buttered side up. Spread over bread slices more mixed fruit, then a layer of bread pieces, and continue to do this till dish is three quarters full.
Beat up the eggs, add sugar, salt, milk and vanilla essence and strain through fine sieve over the bread and fruit in dish. Allow to stand for 1/2 hour for bread to absorb the custard mixture. Bake in moderate oven for about an hour or till set.
Brush top with jelly or jam that has been heated and, if top of pudding is not sufficiently brown, put dish under grill till golden.

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How to make French Loaf

Friday, January 8th, 2010

French Loaf

Ingredients

1 French stick or French loaf
butter or margarine
aluminumfoil

Method
If french stick is used, halve it so that you can cut each half diagonally into slices to, but not through, the bottom crust. Spread butter on the slices, sandwich style, wrap each half in aluminum foil and bake in moderate oven for 3/4 hour, just before serving.
To serve, place foil wrapped bread on plate, open up the foil and let each person help himself to the hot slices of bread.

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What’r something to Stew about

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Chicken and Vegetable Stew

Ingredients
12-14 meaty pieces of chicken
3 large carrots
2 parsnips
1 medium sized swede ( a kind of turnip)
8 small white onion or 3 large ones
1/2 cup finely diced large onion
3 stalks flour seasoned with salt and pepper
6 tbsps butter or margarine
salt
2 cups water or more
4 cm (1 1/2 inch) piece of cinnamon stick

Method
Skin carrots, parsnips, swede and onions. Leave onions whole,if small; if large, cut each into quarters. Halve the carrots, parsnips and swede lengthwise, and then cut each piece in 5 cm(2 inch) lengths.
Dredge chicken pieces in seasoned flour. Heat 2 tbsp butter in large saucepan which is not too deep, and fry as many pieces of floured chicken as pan can accommodate. Cover pan for 10 minutes or so, to brown the other side. Remove browned chicken to platter and brown the rest of the chicken, adding a little more butter.
Heat remaining butter in pan, fry the diced onion till soft, then add carrots, parsnips, swede and chicken pieces. Mix well together and then add 2 cups of water, celery and cinnamon stick. Add more more water, if necessary, and thicken with plain flour made into a thin paste with cold water, if a thicker gravy is desired. Test for taste before serving.

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Hazelnut Sesame Candy

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Ingredients

125g (4oz) butter or substitute
1 cup honey
250g (8oz) sesame seeds
125g (4oz) sultanas
125g (4oz) hazelnuts

Methods
Put sesame seeds in large frying pan. Stir over high heat until seeds turn golden brown, then remove the seeds from pan. Chop hazelnuts roughly. Stand butter and (more…)

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Raisin and Peanut Toffees

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Ingredients

1 cup honey
1 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
90g (3oz) butter, or substitute
125g (4 oz) roasted peanuts
250g (8oz) raisins

Method
Combine honey, sugar, butter in saucepan, and stir over low heat until sugar has (more…)

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What’s Healthy Diets

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Apricot Roll

Ingredients
250g (8oz) dried apricots
1 cup honey
60g (2oz) butter or substitute
3tbsp skim milk
desiccated account
caster sugar

Method
Pour enough boiling water over apricots to cover, let stand for 1 hour, drain and reserve 1/2 cup of the liquid. Put apricots, reserved liquid, honey and butter in (more…)

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