Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Domestic engineer!

Did you know who the domestic engineers are…..

Let’s talk about Christmas preparations

I hope your Christmas preparations are going well

Just wanted to share with you my page at Woman’s Era Magazine

It’s my recipes published years back in that magazine

You can see it here

And on this page itself



I hope your Christmas preparations are going well.

After making lots of toffees today…

I’m feeling a little D E today…I think you know what I mean…

My house is all Christmassy ..

Making yummy things.

Recipes for you to prepare ....


COCO TOFFEE

Granulated sugar 225 gram

Cocoa powder 4 tablespoonfuls

Butter 2 tablespoonfuls

Golden syrup (Dabur honey) tablespoonfuls

Unsweetened condensed milk Small tin

Vanilla essence ½ teaspoonful

Blend the cocoa with the condensed milk to a smooth paste and gradually to the melted butter in a smaller bright saucepan. Add the sugar and syrup, and stir while the mixture boils up. Allow it to boil until a little lump dropped into cold water hardens to the desired consistency. Add the vanilla essence to the mass, beat it up well, and then put it into a thali lined with waxed paper to set.

ALMOND TOFFEE

Sugar (white) 225gram

Sugar (brown canesugar) 225gram

Glucose 125gram

Butter

Almonds (blanched,skinned and neatly cut) 125 gram

Water

Lemon few drops

Almonds (blanched,skinned and neatly cut) 125 gram

Put sugar (brown&white) water in a saucepan, melt on slow fire add butter. Boil the mixture, remove the pan from the heat, and add the almonds. Stir gently. Place over the heat again for a few minutes add the lemon, and pour in a greased thali. Mark the toffee into bars with oiled knife cut into bars.

COCONUT TOFFEE

Desiccated coconut 2 tablespoonfuls

White fine (ground sugar) 600gram

Golden syrup (Dabur honey) 1 tablespoonful

Milk 1 tablespoonful

Vanilla essence ½ teaspoonful

Put butter in a saucepan, add to it when it is melted add golden syrup, and milk. When these are add fine sugar and desiccated coconut. Stir frequently and boil the mixture fast until it candies and grains well on the sides of the pan. Stir in a vanilla essence, and pour it out into an greased tin. Leave it until cold and cut it up.

EVERTON TOFFEE

Sugar (white) 250 gram

Sugar (brown cane sugar ) 50 gram

Glucose 50 gram

Fresh butter 50 gram

Milk 150 gram

Oil of lemon 2 drops

Salt a pinch

Melt the sugar, glucose and milk in a large pan, then place it over gentle heat, add the butter, and boil it. Stir in salt and oil of lemon very gently and pour the toffee into greased tins or thalis. Brush with ghee, free from rancidity.

BUTTER SCOTCH

Sugar 2oo gram

Fresh milk 10 gm

cream of tarter a pinch

lemon essence few drops

lemon juice few drops

Place sugar into a saucepan contained fresh milk. Heat slowly and stir occasionally till the sugar has melted. Add a pinch of cream of tartar, and fresh butter, small pieces at a time. Boil the mixture until it is a light coffee coour, drop a little of it into very cold water, and leave it a few seconds.

Take out the little lump, and, if it is a quite brittle, add a few drops of essence of lemon and lemon-juice, and pour the mixture at once into greased tin or plates to the depth of a i/4 inch. When it is nearly cold, cut it into oblong-shaped pieces, as shown in this picture. If to be stored in a tin first wrap each piece in a wx paper, and then in tin foil. Keep the toffee in a cool, dry place.

GINGER TOFFEE

Brown cane sugaar 200gram

Ground ginger one teaspoonful

White vineger 75 gram

Lump of butter 25 gram

Mix in a saucepan brown cane sugar, ground ginger, and add white veneer and the lump of butter. Put the mixture on the pan of boiling water until the sugar has melted then boil them up on fire and continue boiling until the toffee snaps when a little of it is dropped into cold water. Pour the toffee into oiled tins, and let it harden.

HONEY TOFFEE

Sugar (white) 200gram

Water 35 gram

Honey 100gram

Butter 100 gram

Cream 1 tablespoon

Glucose ½ dessertspoonful

Melt sugar in water when it is on the point of boiling, add glucose, honey & butter, and cream. Boil the whole mixture stirring all the time; then pour it on a buttered thali or plate, and when cold break it up. Wrap toffee in waxed papers tewisted slightly at both ends, and store in a tin.

Above the recipes are some of the Pics of the pages of my ….shared recipes…and today me prepared too. yum.

Hope you are enjoying your Christmas days toooo..!

soory for the sssssssooooooooomuch.........largeee.........post!


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