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Monday, September 16, 2013

Old Virginia Shortcake - Recipe of the day

Sift the flour and then fill a quart measure, using a tablespoon to lift the flour. Care should be taken not to shake or pack the flour down, as the quart of flour should weigh just one pound. Place in a bowl and add

Three level tablespoons of baking powder,
One teaspoon of salt,
Three-quarters cup of sugar.

Sift again to mix and then rub in one-half cup of shortening. Place one and one-half cups of buttermilk in a pitcher and add one teaspoon of baking soda. Stir to thoroughly dissolve the soda and then use this to mix the flour to a dough. Knead well in the bowl with a spoon and then turn on a slightly floured board and roll or pat out one inch thick. Cut with a large biscuit cutter and brush the top with shortening and bake in a hot oven for eighteen minutes.

Old recipe from an old cookbook. Old fashioned way to make old Virginia shortcake.

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

A Multitude of Recipes For Your Consideration

English: Asinan Betawi Jalan Kamboja, one of the famous Asinan in Jakarta. Asinan (lit: salted things) is some kind of vegetable salads. Betawi variant uses spicy peanut sauce and employ vegetables, peanuts, and kerupuk crackers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We decided to see what kind of fun recipes were out there in other areas and found this little gem that we have brought here for your consideration. There are a nice selection of choices here for you to create something amazing and in a short amount of time. The falafel looks great, Indonesian beef satay with peanut sauce looks to die for, and the grape caterpillars looks like a fun treat to serve at the next party.

Recipes from Children and Media Class

Check these recipes out and try something new and different to create a wonderful day.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Blueberry Muffins - Recipe of the Day

Blueberry Friand, Australia, January 2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

2 cups flour
3 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
¾ cup milk
2 eggs
1 tablespoon shortening
1 cup berries

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk slowly, well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well and add berries, which have been carefully picked over and floured. Grease muffin tins; drop one spoonful into each. Bake about 30 minutes in moderate oven.

Make something extraordinary.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Yeast Bread - Recipe of The Day

Bread (Photo credit: ulterior epicure)

With these materials two loaves can be made: Two quarts of flour, half a cupful of yeast, nearly a pint and a half of water, half a table- spoonful each of lard, sugar, and salt. Sift the flour into a bread- pan, and, after taking out a cupful for use in kneading, add the salt, sugar, yeast, and the water, which must be about blood warm (or, say one hundred degrees, if in cold weather, and about eighty in the hot season). Beat well with a strong spoon. When well mixed, sprinkle a little flour on the board, turn out the dough on this, and knead from twenty to thirty minutes. Put back in the pan. Hold the lard in the hand long enough to have it very soft. Rub it over the dough. Cover closely, that neither dust nor air can get in, and set in a warm place. It will rise in eight or nine hours. In the morning shape into loaves or rolls. If into loaves, let these rise an hour where the temperature is between ninety and one hundred degrees; if into rolls, let these rise an hour and a half. Bake in an oven that will brown a teaspoonful of flour in five minutes. (The flour used for this test should be put on a bit of crockery, as it will have a more even heat.) The loaves will need from forty-five to sixty minutes to bake, but the rolls will be done in half an hour if placed close together in the pan; and if French rolls are made, they will bake in fifteen minutes. As soon as baked, the bread should be taken out of the pans and placed on a table where it can rest against something until cool. It should then be put in a stone pot or tin box, which has been thoroughly washed, scalded and dried, and be set away in a cool, dry place.

Make something extraordinary.

Canada Gingerbread - Recipe of the day

I got a ginger molasses cookie (my favourite of theirs) and a Chunky Lola (chocolate chip with pecans). Yum! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One cupful of butter, two of sugar, one of molasses, five of flour, three eggs, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful of ginger, one of soda, one tea-cupful of cream or rich milk, one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one pound of currants. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar, molasses and spice; next the eggs, well beaten; then the milk, in which the soda has been dissolved, next the flour; and lastly the currants. This will make three sheets, or two very thick ones. Bake in a moderately- quick oven, if in three sheets, twenty five minutes; if in two sheets, ten minutes longer.

Make something extraordinary.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Almond Cake - Recipe Of The Day

Warm creamy almond cake, strawberry center and cinnamon streusel throughout...with a pinch of chocolate for good measure.....S is for Summer, S is for Strawberry. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Granulated sugar, nine ounces,
Very fine Hungarian flour, five ounces,
Sweet almonds with some bitter ones, two ounces,
Six whole eggs and three egg yolks,
Taste of lemon peel.

After skinning the almonds in warm water and drying them well, grind or better pound them well together with a tablespoonful of sugar and mix well with the flour. Put the rest of the sugar in a deep dish with the egg yolks and the grated lemon peel (just a taste) and stir with a ladle for a quarter of an hour. In another dish beat the six whites of egg and when they have become quite thick mix them with other ingredients stirring slowly everything together.

To bake place the mixture in a baking-tin greased evenly with butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar and flour.

Video for making an Orange and Almond Cake. Make Something Extraordinary tonight.

Monday, August 19, 2013

APPLE DUMPLINGS - Recipe Of The Day

Apple dumplings (Photo credit: SaijaLehto)

1 cup flour
2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
½ teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons shortening
½ cup milk
4 apples
4 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons butter

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; rub shortening in lightly; add just enough milk to make soft dough. Roll out ⅛-inch thick on floured board; divide into four parts; lay on each part an apple which has been washed, pared, cored and sliced; add one teaspoon sugar and ½ teaspoon butter to each; wet edges of dough with cold water and fold around apple pressing tightly together. Place in greased pan. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and put little butter on each dumpling. Bake 40 minutes in moderate oven. Serve with hard sauce.

⅓ cup butter
1 cup powdered sugar
½ teaspoon flavoring extract

Cream butter until very light; add sugar very slowly, beating until light and creamy. Add flavoring and beat again.

Peach dumplings may be made in the same way.

Make Something Extraordinary Tonight.

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Old Virginia Shortcake - Recipe of the day

Thursday, September 12, 2013

A Multitude of Recipes For Your Consideration