Posts Tagged ‘Entertaining Recipes’

CURRANT SHORTIES

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Ingredients
6 level tbsps currants, chopped into smaller pieces
1 egg, beaten
Vanilla
1/2 metric cups plain flour
Pinch of salt and bicarbonate of soda
1/2 metric cup shortening (available in tins from supermarkets) (more…)

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Chinese New Years Cookies Recipes

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Coconut Cookies

Ingredients

150g butter or margarine
1 tsp liquid sweetening (equal to 5 tbsp sugar)
1 1/4 metric cups wheat flour
5 tbsp dessiccated coconut

Topping
egg
desiccated coconut

Method
Cream the fat. Add liquid sweetening, coconut and wheat flour. Stir until well mixed. Roll into two bars about 4 cm in diameter. Chill. Cut the bars into 3/4 cm thick slices, brush with egg and dip into the desiccated coconut. Bake at 175 degrees C for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.

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Chinese New Year Cookies

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Dannish Cookies

Ingredients
300 g plain sifted flour Pinch of salt
Vanilla
1 1/2 level tsp baking powder
300 g sugar
300g butter (more…)

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Blessing Dish

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Steamed Cod Steak (4 American servings /8 Chinese servings)
6 dried Chinese mushrooms
2 pounds cod steaks, 1 1/2 to 2
inches thick (or other firm
whitefish)
1/2 teaspoon salt (more…)

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Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Steamed Chicken and Sausages ( 3 American servings/6 Chinese servings)
1 ( 2 1/2 pound) chicken
2 tablespoons sherry teaspoon
1/2 salt
teaspoons cornstarch
2 to 3 Chinese sausages, cut into thick diagonal slices (more…)

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Chinese New Years Dinner

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Deep Fried Pork Balls (4 to 6 American servings/ 4 to 6 Chinese servings)
1½ pounds pork (loin, butt or shoulder) with some fat, minced
1 slice fresh ginger root, minced
3 water chestnuts, minced
1/2 medium onion, minced (more…)

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Chinese New Year Menu

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Stir fried pork and eggplant (4 American servings/ 8 Chinese servings)
1 large eggplant
3 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon sherry
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/2 pound lean pork, cut diagonally across the grain into 1/8 inch slices (more…)

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Chinese New Years Dish

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Sweet Sour Pork  (4 American servings/8 Chinese servings)
1 recipe sweet sour sauce
1 pound lean pork
teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons sherry (more…)

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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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Quick Vegetable Salad

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Ingredients

2 cucumbers, halved lengthwise and thickly sliced
1 small ripe pineapple, sliced and each slice coarsely shredded in short lengths
300g soy bean cake fried to a golden brown on both sides and sliced thinly (optional) (more…)

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