Friday, January 7, 2011

Cake and brownie recipes

Try this simple and easy recipes for cakes and biscuits. It 's amazing how little time it takes to prepare the curry puffs satisfaction of favorites, like cheese cake, coconut cake, biscuits, peanut, coconut biscuits, peanuts, and puffs .

Cheese Cakes Recipe

Pasta:
4 ounces flour
2 ounces margarine
1 tablespoon raspberry jam
cold water
Batter: -
2 oz flour, castor
Sugar and margarine
1 egg
½ teaspoonBaking powder
½ teaspoon vanilla

Method:
1. The flour for the dough in a bowl rub in carrying margarine and pasta.
2. Roll out the dough 1 / 10 "thick and cut into slices with a serrated knife. Make 10-12 laps.
3. Line Patty tins with rounds of dough and set aside to relax.
4. Cream margarine and sugar for cake mix for a few minutes.
5. Add in beaten eggs slowly and beat well.
6. Add invanilla.
7. Together the flour, baking powder and fold into the cream mix.
8. Put some 'jam in each pastry case and spoon the cake mix on it.
9. Bake at 400 º C for 20 to 25 minutes.
10. When the cake is well browned, let them cool on a wire tray before serving on a doily.

Coconut tarts recipe

Ingredients:
4 oz shortcrust pasty
1 tablespoon raspberry jam
Filling: -
2 ozMargarine
Role
Sugar
Coconut
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla

Method:
1. Make pastry and line 10-12 Patty cans with him.
2. Cream margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Whisk the eggs, gradually add the vanilla.
4. Mix the grated coconut.
5. Put some 'jam in each pastry case and cover with the mixture of coconut.
6. Space through the strips of dough and bake at 400 º F20 to 25 minutes.
7. When the cakes are cooked and brown well, cool on a wire tray before serving on a doily.

Peanut Cookies recipe

Ingredients:
4 ounces flour
2 ounces margarine
½ to 1 oz icing sugar
1 ounce of peanuts (slightly roasted, peeled and chopped)
½ teaspoon vanilla

Method:
1. Grease two baking sheets.
2. Put the flour into a bowl and rub the margarine.
3. Sift the ground peanuts. Keep the greatPieces by hand, finely chop the walnuts and flour.
4. Add sugar and mix well.
5. Separate the eggs and add 2 teaspoons water and vanilla, egg yolk.
6. Add enter the egg mixture to the flour and stir quickly a firm dough. Add more water if necessary.
7. The dough on pastry board and roll slightly thick as ...>".
8. Cut into slices or rings with a knife to her throat. Lift cookies carefully with a spatula or a table forpans.
9. Brush top with egg white and brush the remaining peanuts on top.
10. Bake cookies for 15 to 20 minutes in a moderate oven to 350 º F until a light brown color.
11. Cool cookies on baking sheets for two minutes before lifting to a wire tray to cool further. Cookies Store in an airtight jar.

Coconut Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:
4 ounces flour
2 ounces margarine
1 ozCoconut
½ to 1 oz icing sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

Methods:
1. Grease two baking sheets.
2. Put the flour into a bowl and rub the margarine.
3. Add sugar and coconut and mix well.
4. Separate the eggs and add 1 tablespoon water and vanilla to the egg yolk.
5. Add enter the egg mixture to flour mixture and stir in soda.
6. The dough and roll easily on the thickness ...>" â.
7. StingThe pasta with a fork.
8. Divide the dough into rounds or fingers clean and lift it carefully on greased baking sheet.
9. Glaze cookies with egg white and bake in moderate oven at 350 º C for 15 to 20 minutes.
10. If the cookies are baked and a light brown, remove it, leave it for a few minutes before lifting them to cool on a wire tray.
11. Cool cookies in an airtight jar.

Peanut PuffsRecipe

Ingredients:
4 oz shortcrust
3 tablespoons roasted peanuts
3 teaspoons toasted seeds Gingelly
3 teaspoons powdered sugar

Methods:
1. Make shortcrust pasty, roll out to 1 / 10 "thick and cut into rounds with a simple knife.
2. Chop peanuts and mix with sugar and seeds Gingelly.
3. Place an equal amount of filling on each round of pastry, wet edges of dough and fold make it a brothel.
4. Seal the edge ofto be together with a fork or fold the dough over the edge canvas.
5. Fry the peanuts slowly puffs to brown lightly in oil smoke.
6. Drain well and serve on a doily.

Curry Puffs recipe

Ingredients:
4 oz shortcrust
75 grams to 115 grams of meat or shrimp
1 potato
1 tablespoon curry powder
½ onion Bombay
2 onions
few curry leaves
Salt
Oil

Methods:
1. Wash and chop the meat and the shell and chop the shrimp.
2.Peel, wash and dice the potatoes and onion in Bombay.
3. Peel, wash and chop onions.
4. Heat Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil and chopped onions.
5. Add curry leaves and add the curry powder and 2 or 3 minutes.
6. Add meat or shrimp and a minute or two.
7. Add potatoes, salt, ½ cup of water. Cover and cook until the potatoes are soft and the filling is dry. Season well and the filling to cool on a plate.
8. Make the dough roll1 / 10 "thick and cut into rounds.
9. Place an equal amount of cooled filling on each round of dough, fold the wet edges of pastry rounds curry puffs.
10. Seal the edge of each pastry with a braided edge.
11. Fry the trains will be thoroughly cooked slowly in oil until slightly smoking pasta. Drain well and serve with a sprig of parsley.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Homemade Biscuits The Quick And Easy Way

Do you remember how good homemade piping hot biscuits are? Maybe your grandmother made them for you in days past but you haven't had them in years. Perhaps your children have rarely had homemade biscuits.

It's time to change that! It's also time to change the way we make biscuits. We no longer have the time to get out the rolling pin and cover the kitchen in flour. But luckily, there is a quick and easy way to go homemade without the homemade time and mess.


Assemble a mixing bowl and mixing spoon, 2-cup measuring cup, set of measuring spoons, and a baking sheet. You will also need a 2 ½-inch metal scoop - the type that has a handle you squeeze to eject the food.


Put the following ingredients nearby: buttermilk, vegetable oil, all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt.


Turn on the oven to 425 degrees.


Pour 1 cup of buttermilk into the glass measuring cup. Add enough oil to bring the total volume to the 1 ½ cup mark.


Put 2 cups of flour into the bowl. Add 2 ½ tsp. of baking powder, 1 tsp. of sugar, 1 tsp. of salt, and a scant 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda.


Here's the secret of good biscuits - stir to blend, but don't over-stir. Be sure to scrape the sides so you don't end up with pockets of flour.


Fill the scoop, scrape the edge to level the contents, and eject the dough onto the baking sheet. (If you do not have a scoop, you can drop the batter from a spoon.)


Bake the biscuits until they are brown on the top and bottom - about 15 minutes.


Brush the tops with butter.

These biscuits will have a slightly more irregular shape than rolled biscuits, but the scoop gives them a more regular shape than dropping them from a spoon.

Here's a more traditional look at the recipe:

Laurie's Biscuits


2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup buttermilk
½ cup vegetable oil
2 ½ tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
scant 1/8 tsp. baking soda

Mix dry ingredients. Add buttermilk and oil. Roll and cut or drop by spoonfuls onto a baking sheet. Bake in a preheated oven at 425 degrees for 15 minutes or until brown. Brush tops with butter.

That's all there is to it. Oh, except for picking out your favorite jelly.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Healthy Dog Treats & Biscuits

Concerned about what's in prepared dog food - why not try these home baked healthy dog treats and biscuits.

There's nothing quite like home cooking - and this is true for your dog too! You'll have trouble shifting them out of the kitchen with these tempting recipes:

Healthy Dog Treats

Ingredients

1 cup wholewheat or wholegrain flour
¼ cup soy flour
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/3 cup stock (beef or chicken) or water
1 tsp yeast

To Make

Combine all of the dry ingredients and mix together well. Slowly add the stock or water until it forms a thick dough. Roll out flat and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake at 350F (180C) until golden brown and crisp. Break into pieces and use as a special treat for your pooch.

Healthy Dog Biscuits

Ingredients

As for Dog Treats PLUS
¼ cup cornmeal
¼ cup pumpkin seeds
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon honey

To Make

Beat the egg and milk together, then add the oil. Combine all of the dry ingredients and mix together well. Slowly add the liquid mixture until it forms a thick dough (add more milk if necessary). Knead for 5 minutes, then let the dough rest for an hour.

Roll out to ½" thickness and cut into shapes using cookie cutters. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake at 350F (180C) for 30 minutes.

Again, these should be used as special treats for your dog, and are not meant to replace regular meals. Both will keep well for a few weeks in the pantry, and can be kept in the refrigerator if the weather is very humid.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Chocolate Biscuits

There are many types of biscuits. These include wafers, digestives, crackers and chocolate. Chocolate biscuits are a favorite among children. If you want to make these then get a recipe from among many biscuit recipes available. One easy biscuits recipe for making these will get the biscuits ready very quick.

It is a known fact that chocolate biscuits perk up your mood. If you are feeling sad, love yourself with one or two of these and the blues will be gone. If you decide to go with something extra delicious, make them Belgian chocolate ones. They may be a pretty penny but your tongue will thank you for it.

Belgian ones are covered with creamy Belgian chocolate. It could be white chocolate, milk chocolate or dark chocolate. You will find makers of these delicious products around the globe.

Chocolate biscuit cakes are easily made and tasty. They can also be made without baking and with minimal heating. When you get all the recipes for biscuits in hand, you may not know which one to use. In such instances you could flip a coin or go with your gut. Most of the available recipes are good ones.

The cheese biscuit is another popular variety of these baked goodies. Among these the cheddar cheese biscuits are really cool. They take a little preparation. However to me nothing beats the pure pleasure of chocolate biscuits. They beat Prozac and they beat pizza - if you want to stay with the beat, have your daily dose of chocolate biscuits and live it up.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Old Fashioned Baking Powder Biscuits

I have noticed over the years that there are two philosophies for Strawberry Shortcake. There are the people who make Strawberry Shortcake with biscuits. And then there are those who make it with angel food cake or plain white or yellow cake. My mother belonged to the biscuit philosophy. She also made baking powdered biscuits when she ran out of bread and needed a quick bread to serve with a meal.

My mom and dad both considered baking powder biscuits spread served with butter and pancake syrup or dark corn syrup with a very special treat.

3 cups flour
1 / 2 cup shortening
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 / 2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 cup milk

Measure the flour, baking powder, reduced, sugar and salt in a bowl. Cut the shortening into the flour with a fork until it resembles meal. Gradually stir the milk to form dough. If the dough is too dry, add milk EL. When the doughseems too soft, add flour by the quarter cup.

Knead the dough on a floured surface for a minute or so. Then roll out to a half-inch thick and make biscuits with a biscuit cutter or donut cutter or round cookie cutter.

Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 or 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Makes about 12 to 18 biscuits, depending on the size of the cutter you use.

Strawberry Shortcake
4 cups of fresh strawberries (or thawed frozen strawberries)
1 cup of sugar (or to taste)

Crush the strawberries. Stir in the sugar until dissolved. Serve over baking powder biscuits and topped with whipped cream. Yum!

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Best Easiest Biscuits and Zuchinni-Less Zuchinni Bread Recipes

The day after Thanksgiving I was at home, shocked by the catastrophe of my Thanksgiving cookies ... among others. I think they just do not have the touch to cooking. Pasta and I just can not cope. But I wanted to make this creamy homemade cookies melt the language, and in yours.

So I concluded that the only way I could have done to develop good biscuits was the easiest recipe I. And after a few trial and error, I do. Here isis:

Ingredients
2 cups Baking Mix (Bisquick is a popular brand but others will work)
1 cup (more or less) heavy cream (whipping cream)

Directions
1. Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Put baking mix in a large bowl and slowly add heavy cream while stirring. Stir until a dough forms and pulls away from sides of bowl. The dough should be tacky but not crumbly or sticky wet. You may need more or less heavy cream. If the dough is too sticky, add more baking mix. If to dry and crumbly, add more cream.
3. Roll out dough on a flat surface to about one inch thickness.
4. Use a 2 inch biscuit cutter to cut out the biscuits.
5. Place cut biscuits on a non-greased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Makes about 6 biscuits.

Notes:
1. If you have parchment paper, line the cookie sheet with the paper prior to placing biscuits on cookie sheet. It helps to prevent the bottoms from browning too fast.
2. These biscuits are very moist inside and you may prefer a drier biscuit. When the biscuits are golden brown on top, break one biscuit open and check if the inside is done to your preference. If too moist, turn biscuits over and bake another 5 minutes.

Serve hot.

In addition to the biscuit problem after Thanksgiving, I was wondering what to do with some of the left overs. I had cranberry sauce (with whole berries), pumpkin pie mix and blueberries that I planned on throwing away. But then a friend suggested making bread with the left overs. As mentioned earlier, baking and I do not get along, so bread was out of the question.

However, I did have a zucchini bread recipe that always came out good. So, I used that recipe without the zucchini. Here is the result:

Ingredients
* 3 eggs
* 1 cup vegetable oil
* 2 cups sugar
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 3 cups all purpose flour
* 1 cup pumpkin pie filling
* 1/2 cup blueberries
* 1/2 cup fresh cranberries (cooked) or canned whole berry cranberry sauce.
* 3 teaspoons cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
* water, as needed

Directions
1. If you are using fresh cranberries, cook according to package instructions.
2. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees F.
3. Grease and flour two 8x4 inch loaf pans.
4. In a medium size bowl, beat eggs until light and frothy. Add oil and vanilla and mix well.
5. In a separate large bowl, combine all remaining ingredients and mix well.
6. Add egg mixture to flour mix and stir until well blended.
7. At this point, you may need to add enough water to obtain a batter. Should look like pancake batter.
8. Pour mixture equally into prepared loaf pans.
9. Bake about 60 minutes or until a knife inserted into top of loaf comes out dry.

This zucchini-less zucchini bread came out yummy on the first attempt. It really should be called dessert rather than bread because it is sweet. It is also very moist so it will keep well for several days.

If you are a cook that has as many failures as successes, give these two recipes a try. Neither requires a lot of skill and you will be pleased with your results.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Biscuits Add Flavour in Our Life

People like to eat. The bakery products are very popular with the cookies. Is one of our favorite foods. A cookie is actually a baked food, and the term has been applied differently in North America and other nations of the Commonwealth for various edible items. In the U.S., shortbread, is too small, soft sourdough bread that is similar. In Commonwealth countries English biscuits are actually quite hard, flavored, often produced tough, sweettaste often known as cookies or cracker in case of cheese biscuits. Modern day confusion in the English Language about the word biscuit is based on its etymology.

The word biscuit is believed to have originated from Middle French word biscuit which is made up of two words, bis (twice) and coquere (to cook). This is because biscuits are first baked and then allowed to dry in ovens. The term was then adopted in the English Language in the 14th century during the middle ages. Presently the whole world uses the term biscuit for hard, sweet, flavoured, crisp bread except in United States where it denotes a soft bread product baked only once. In modern Italian usage the term biscotto is used for biscuits. Biscuits have solved the problem of man in being easily manageable and transportable so can be carried to long distances while travelling without any problem. The introduction of baking of processed cereals, making of flour has resulted in the production of a number of edible food item and biscuits are one of them. Egyptian sailors carried a soft loaf of millet, Romans also used biscuits during their travel.

Many physicians suggest that majority of medicinal problems arise due to digestion so consumption of at least one biscuit in a day can keep the individual healthy without any problem of digestion. Presently biscuits are softer and very fine flour is used in their preparation. For making then soft they are dipped in brine or coffee. They are baked hard so that they can be used even after a long time and can be easily transported from one place to other during journey. Old World biscuits were hard, dry and unsweetened. They were cheap and were allowed to cook for prolonged periods. With the combination of Muslim invasion in Spain and then the crusades developing spice trade the cooking techniques of Arabia spread into Northern Europe. By the mediaeval times biscuits were prepared from the sweetened, spiced paste of breadcrumbs and then baked. The paste was sweet in taste as it was loaded with sugar.

Biscuits that are consumed today are actually sweet, small, 2 inches in diameter and flat. Sweet biscuits are liked as snacks and are made up of wheat flour or oats, sweetened with honey or sugar. Different varieties may contain chocolate, fruits, nuts or jams as fillings. In Britain digestive biscuits and tea highly flavoured in the tea time. Crackers are plain biscuits usually consumed with cheese. Some biscuits are flavoured with poppy seed, onion seeds and olives.

Biscuits constitute a very important part of our life as they are good sources of fibers as well as nutrients but must be consumed within a limit.