Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Traditional South African Milk tart


This is a great old traditional South African recipe that is relatively easy and sooo delicious!!


Crust - puff pastry

Ingredients:
1 Cup flour
pinch of salt
125g cold butter (not margarine)
80ml ice water (must be ice water)
1/2 tsp lemon juice
Method:
mix the salt and flour together and devide the butter into 3 equal parts.
Grate the first part of the butter into the flour mixture and rub in with your fingertips until the flour looks like mealimeal.
Mix the water and lemon juice and add to the flour mixture.
Mix until it forms a stiff dough.
Roll out on a flour covered surface and grate the second piece of butter on the dough. Fold close and roll out again.
Now grate the last piece of butter on the dough. Fold close and press into a little ball and cool for at least 30 minutes before use.
Once cooled, roll out into a thin layer and press into a round (23cm) dish and cool again while preparing the filling.
Filling:
Ingredients:
2.5 Cups of milk
4 tbls sugar
2 tbls flour
1 tbls maizena
2 eggs seperated
2 tbls butter (not margarine)
5ml Vanilla essence
Method:
Mix all dry ingredients together.
Bring milk to the boil, add vanilla essence and add to dry mixture and mix until smooth.
Pour mixture back into pot and heat while stirring continuously until thick and cooked.
Add the egg yolk and butter and mix well.
Fluff the egg whites and add to the mixture just before pouring into the crust.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and bake for 20 min at 220 degrees.
I hope you enjoy this one and remember that practice makes perfect!! Till next time!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Tasty South African mealie bread.




This is one of my favorites. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
2 Cups flour
3ml tumeric
2 tsp baking powder
60 ml sugar
1 tin (420g) sweetcorn/creamed corn
2 large eggs
80ml milk
60g melted butter or margarine

Method:
Mix all dry ingredients together and add sweetcorn.
Mix milk and eggs together and add melted butter. Add to mixture and mix well.
Bake for 55-60min at 180 degrees.
Serve hot with melting butter!

Till next time!

Start the new year with chocolate...


Well, it's been a while and I am still busy recovering from 'real life' after a wonderful relaxing holiday. When I feel depressed, I find that chocolate normally does the trick for me and makes me feel a little better. This is (or was) actually a Golden Cloud recipe that I had to modify so much because I started mixing before checking if I had all the ingredients. If I can give you good advice, don't start mixing any ingredients before you have made sure that you actually have everything that you need. This is a very rich pudding and not for the faint hearted! Go on, have a second helping...
I'm going to call this one chocolate surprise pudding.
Serves 4

Ingredients:
1 Cup flour
1 Egg
1 tsp hot chocolate
1 tsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
90ml sunflower oil
150 ml water
Sauce:
1 cup soft brown sugar
1 cup boiling water
25ml cocoa powder

Method:
Mix the flour, hot chocolate powder, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder together.
Beat egg, oil and water together and add to flour mixture. Mix together until smooth
Pour batter into a casserole dish and prepare the sauce.
For the sauce: mix all ingredients together in a saucepan and bring to the boil or stir until sugar is dissolved. Pour sauce slowly over mix and bake for 40min at 180 degrees
Serve hot with whipped cream.

Till next time. Enjoy!