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Lemon panna cotta with blackberry sauce
Posted by: TeresaDownUnder on: February 5, 2009
Panna cotta
Vegetable oil
1 cup whole milk
1 cup cream
1/2 vanilla bean or 1tsp vanilla essence
tablespoons fresh lemon juice
teaspoons unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup yogurt
2 tablespoons grated lemon peel
Sauce
2 cups blackberries
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2-3 tablespoons crème de cassis
For panna cotta
Lightly oil six ramekins. Mix milk and cream in heavy medium saucepan.
Scrape in seeds from vanilla [...]
Brandy custard
Posted by: TeresaDownUnder on: December 26, 2008
4 tbsp butter
2 tbsp cornflour
290 ml milk
90 ml brandy
4 tbsp sugar
2 egg yolks
Gently heat the butter until sizzling, then stir in the cornflour.
Remove from the heat and carefully blend in the milk, avoiding lumps.
Return to the heat, stirring constantly until custard starts to thicken. Remove from heat.
Beat sugar and egg yolks until volume doubles.
Stir in [...]
Christmas pudding
Posted by: TeresaDownUnder on: December 26, 2008
250 gr butter
125 gr white sugar
125 gr brown sugar
4 eggs
125 gr plain flour
125 gr breadcrumbs
a good pinch of salt
375 gr raisins
375 gr sultanas
250 gr currants
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
3 tbsp brandy
1m x 1m calico cloth (which has been quickly boiled to extract any dyes or fabric conditioners)
Cream butter and sugars.
Add eggs, then [...]
Eggless lemon cake
Posted by: TeresaDownUnder on: October 20, 2008
Rind of 2 lemons, grated
Juice of 3 lemons
250 gr self raising flour
225 gr sugar
200ml milk
200ml olive oil
75ml water
4 tbsp sugar or to taste
Add lemon rind, and 2/3 of the juice (without straining), sugar, milk, oil and flour and mix well.
Put in a mould and in a cold oven at 160C for 15 minutes. Then at [...]
