What to do with Excess Egg Whites?

What do you do with the leftover egg-whites when you make ice-cream?

Well, my husband made Meringues while I was sitting on my computer writing my blog post – isn’t he delightful? This recipe comes from the Sunbeam Ice-Cream maker instruction booklet, although my husband modified it, as there seemed like a LOT of  caster sugar.

The recipe that he used is:
4 egg whites
¾ cup of caster sugar (the recipe called for 240g of caster sugar)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Hundreds and thousands to sprinkle

1. Preheat oven to 150°C. Grease and line two baking trays with baking paper.
2. Beat egg whites in a bowl with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Gradually add the sugar a little at a time, making sure that the sugar has dissolved between additions. Beat in vanilla.
3. Place meringue in a piping bag fitted with a star shaped nozzle, or if you’re like us and don’t have a piping bag, use a ziplock bag with the corner chopped off. Pipe small star shapes onto the baking trays. Sprinkle with hundreds and thousands.
4. Bake for 45 minutes. Turn the oven off, leaving the door slightly ajar and allow the meringues to cool completely in the oven.
5. Store in an airtight container.

Don’t they look delicious? In our home, we waste nothing. The scraps that we have are given to the chooks, and anything that we can’t feed to the chooks goes into the compost bin or to the worm farm. After all, God expects us to be good stewards of all that we have been provided.

Shortbread

What’s for Dinner at our Home?

What’s for dinner at our home tonight? Well, it’s holidays, and our son is preparing dinner for us – farm-fresh roast chicken and roast vegetables, followed by Banana Cake, custard and ice-Cream. My son has created the stuffing for the chicken all by himself, and the chicken is basted with oil and a little lemon juice. Oh, it smells so delightful, up here in the school room.

Scripture Cake

Above is my trusty, very old Green and Gold Cookbook, twenty sixth edition, that my mum received when she was first married. It cost 10/6, which would have been 10 shillings and sixpence, and it was purchased from the Beck Book Co. Ltd, New and Secondhand Bookseller, 17-19 Pulteney Street, Adelaide. It is a little the worse for wear, but it has been used constantly for over half a century, and has some of the best tried and true recipes in it, one of which is: ~

Scripture Cake

• Four and a half cups 1 Kings, iv chapter, 22nd verse
• one and a half cups Judges, v chapter, 25th verse, last clause
• two cups Jeremiah, vi chapter, 20th verse
• two cups 1 Samuel, xxx chapter, 12th verse,
• one cup Numbers, xvii chapter, 8th verse
• half cup Judges iv chapter, 19th verse
• two tablespons 1 Samuel xiv chapter, 25th verse
• six eggs, Jeremiah xvii chapter, 11th verse
• two tablespoons Amos iv chapter, 5th verse
• pinch of salt Leviticus ii chapter, 13th verse
• spice to taste 1 Kings x chapter, 10th verse

Follow Solomon’s rule for making a good boy, and you will have an excellent cake: Proverbs xxiii, chapter, verses 1 to 14.

-A.C., Georgetown – Green and Gold Cookbook

What has my Daughter been Doing?

Well, first of all she baked Apple Cinnamon Muffins – recipe here. However, we did change the recipe – instead of all purpose flour (plain flour), we used SR flour and did away with the baking powder, and we grated the apple rather than chopping it finely. They turned out very well.

Next, she made an Apple Cake, which is a recipe from a very dear family friend in Tumby Bay. Her husband says, “It’s not really Apple Pie, but it’s the next best thing to it.”

Apple Cake Recipe

Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter
½ cup sugar
1 cup S.R. flour
1 egg
¾ cup milk
3 or 4 apples peeled and sliced

Method
Cream butter and sugar well together. Add egg and mix well. Add milk and mix well. Add flour and mix well until there are no lumps.

Pour half the batter into a greased cake tin. Layer sliced apples over mixture. Pour remaining batter over apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 180°C for 45 minutes.

These recipes are tried and true. I thought that it was supposed to be holidays, but it appears that no matter how hard we try to be on holidays, learning will still occur!