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December 23rd, 2009

Shortbread

Gae from Cherished ♥♥♥ at Home published an easy recipe for Shortbread, so this afternoon my daughter and I prepared and baked it. This recipe is really easy, and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed licking the bowl clean after we had finished spooning the mixture into the pan.
Shortbread
The next recipe that we are going to tackle is Tim Tam Balls, also from Gae – thank you, Gae, but this one will have to wait until we go shopping. It’s lucky that this is a really quick recipe to prepare. This is the limit of our Christmas baking, as we normally buy a Lions Christmas Cake.

Some of this Shortbread will be given to friends of ours, as a part of their Christmas present. After all, isn’t that what Christmas is all about? – for it is better to give than to receive.

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December 21st, 2009

What’s for Dinner at our Home?

Roast Chicken & Vegetables
Banana Cake


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.

I challenged him this afternoon as to whether he is going to take it up for a living, but he said, “No, I’m too slow, and I don’t work well under pressure.” I think that he’s done an excellent job, but as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, or as in this case, the Roast Chicken and the Banana Cake. Praise God for willing helpers, and that our son loves cooking!
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December 20th, 2009

Scripture Cake

Green and Gold Cookbook
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
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December 13th, 2009

What has my Daughter been Doing?

Apple Cinnamon Muffins

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
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!

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December 13th, 2009

Making Soft Goat Cheese

At the moment, we have an abundance of goats’ milk, so my husband and son decided to have a go at making Goat Cheese.

Curds in Cheesecloth
Wringing it Out


Hanging Cheese
Goat Cheese



The recipe that we used comes from here.

It uses 1/2 gallon fresh goats’ milk (unpasteurised), the juice of two lemons and sea salt.

Firstly, we heated the milk on medium heat to 185°F. Then we removed it from the heat and stirred in lemon juice, continuing to stir it until the milk has curdled. Next, we added ½ tablespoon coarse salt (kosher salt or sea salt). After this, we strained the milk through cheesecloth. Finally we wrapped the curds in cheesecloth and hung it in the refrigerator to drain overnight.

This soft goat cheese is great on cracker biscuits or added to a salad or pasta.

The nutritional information for soft goat cheese per 1 oz is:

  • Calories ~ 76
  • Protein ~ 5.25
  • Total Fat ~ 5.98g
  • Carbohydrate ~ .25g
  • Sugars ~ .25g
  • Calcium ~ 40 mg
  • Magnesium ~ 5 mg

Finally, the taste test, and it tastes like a cross between Playdough and car tyres – oh well, back to the drawing board! Meanwhile, I’m still looking for a good recipe for soft goat cheese – one that tastes like cheese.

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