Gingerbread man cookies
Ingredients:
6 cups all-porpouse flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground ginger
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup granulated sugar
300ml cups molasses
2 eggs, beaten
Directions:
Preheat oven to 177 C. Thoroughly mix flour, baking soda, and spices. Melt shortening in large saucepan. Cool slightly. Add sugar, molasses and eggs to ssucepan; mix well. Add 4 dry ingredients and mix well. Turn mixture onto lightly floured surface. Knead in remaining dry ingredients by hand. Add a little more flour, if necessary, to make firm dough. On floured surface, roll out 3,175mm a 6,35 mm thickmto cut out cookies. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 8-10 minutes. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
These are our first gingerbread man cookies, my son was making them. It was so funny.
Anyway, I am very bad at baking. Let´s see what happens.
4th of July Dessert Red, White and Blue strawberries cake
Ingredients 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed 1 pint blueberries, rinsed and drained 2 pints fresh strawberries, rinsed and slice
Directions Prepare cake according to package directions and bake in a 9x13 inch pan. Cool completely. Frost cake with whipped topping. Place blueberries in a square in the corner, and arrange sliced strawberries as stripes to make an American flag. Chill until serving.
Pancakes
Ingredients:
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Method:
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Apple crumbleIngredients
For the crumble
300g/10½oz plain flour, sieved pinch of salt
175g/6oz unrefined brown sugar
200g/7oz unsalted butter, cubed at room temperature
Knob of butter for greasing
For the filling
450g/1lb apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm/½in pieces
50g/2oz unrefined brown sugar
1 tbsp plain flour
1 pinch of ground cinnamon
Preparation method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
2. Place the flour and sugar in a large bowl and mix well. Taking a few cubes of butter at a time rub into the flour mixture. Keep rubbing until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
3. Place the fruit in a large bowl and sprinkle over the sugar, flour and cinnamon. Stir well being careful not to break up the fruit.
4. Butter a 24cm/9in ovenproof dish. Spoon the fruit mixture into the bottom, then sprinkle the crumble mixture on top.
5. Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes until the crumble is browned and the fruit mixture bubbling.
6. Serve with thick cream or custard.
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Cottage pie
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 lbs ground round beef
1 onion chopped
1-2 cups vegetables - chopped carrots, corn, peas
1 1/2 - 2 lbs potatoes (3 big ones)
8 tablespoons butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup beef broth
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Salt, pepper, other seasonings of choice
METHOD
1 Peel and quarter potatoes, boil in salted water until tender (about 20 minutes).
2 While the potatoes are cooking, melt 4 Tablespoons butter (1/2 a stick) in large frying pan.
3 Sauté onions in butter until tender over medium heat (10 mins). If you are adding vegetables, add them according to cooking time. Put any carrots in with the onions. Add corn or peas either at the end of the cooking of the onions, or after the meat has initially cooked.
4 Add ground beef and sauté until no longer pink. Add salt and pepper. Add worcesterchire sauce. Add half a cup of beef broth and cook, uncovered, over low heat for 10 minutes, adding more beef broth as necessary to keep moist.
5 Mash potatoes in bowl with remainder of butter, season to taste.
6 Place beef and onions in baking dish. Distribute mashed potatoes on top. Rough up with a fork so that there are peaks that will brown nicely. You can use the fork to make some designs in the potatoes as well.
7 Cook in 400 degree oven until bubbling and brown (about 30 minutes). Broil for last few minutes if necessary to brown.
Ingredientes:
500 grs. de carne picada (mejor 1/2 vacuno y 1/2 cerdo)
1 bote de tomate frito Solís
1 cebolla mediana
2 ó 3 dientes de ajo
1 zanahoria
1 kilo de patatas
sal
pimienta negra y blanca
aceite
margarina
1 huevo
Leche
Queso rallado
PREPARACIÓN
Cubrir de aceite el fondo de una cazuela y rehogar la cebolla, el ajo y la zanahoria. Cuando estén hechos ?no dorados? añadir la carne picada y salpimentar.
Cuando la carne tome color añadir entre seis y ocho cucharadas de tomate frito y cocinar durante diez o quince minutos a fuego medio.
Cocer las patatas peladas y aplastarlas con un triturador junto a la margarina y una yema cruda de huevo. Salpimentar. Añadir leche poco a poco hasta obtener un puré fino y sin grumos.
Escurrir el excedente de grasa de la carne y poner en un recipiente para horno o microondas (valen los dos si el micro tiene grill), prerentemente una cazuela de barro.
Cubrir con el puré con ciudado para que no se mezclen. Hacer unos dibujos en la superficie del puré, espolvorear con queso rallado, poner unas nueces de margarina y cocinar (horno+grill) durante unos diez minutos.
