Priscilla’s Favourite Recipes

My neighbour here went to the farm and give me a big bag of apples and the apples are taking too much spaces in my fridge even though we have been eating them. And having successfully make the strudel paper-like dough, I decided to try my hand on making apple strudel.

I really have fun with my 4 years old boy making the apple strudel, he helped me with the spread of cinnamon mixture onto the ready roll out dough while I add the apples, raisin and finally roll up the dough over the filling and bake in the oven.

And we have it for our tea-break, my boy has two serving of it and I give one to my neighbour who give me the apples.

Ingredients:
Apple fillings:
10 apples
1/2 cup raisins
1 tbsb lemon juice
6 tbsp raw golden sugar
Walnuts, pecan nuts (Optional, I did not use as many people here are allergic to them).

Apple Sauce:
4 apples

Spice Crumbs Mixture:
3/4 cup Bread crumbs
1/2 cup raw golden sugar
1/2 cup cinnamon powder
1 tbsp grated lemon zest
1 tbsp rum (Optional, I did not use, as children will be eating)

Other:
1/2 cup melted butter
icing sugar
whipped cream or ice cream(Optional)

Method:
Apple fillings:
1. Peel,core the apples and sliced the apples.

2. Place in a large bowl, add raisins, sugar and lemon juice (and rum if using) and toss well. Set them aside and prepare the apple sauce and spice crumbs mixture.

Apple Sauce:
3. Core and cube the apples and place them into a food processor and process into sauce. Set side and prepare the spice crumbs mixture.

Spice Crumbs Mixture:
4. In a bowl, combine bread crumbs, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon zest. Toss well and set aside.

Wrap the strudel:
5. Preheat the oven to 350F (180 C) and prepare the dough according to the Strudel Pastry Dough recipe.

6. Place the dough on a table towel and a wax paper.

7. Spread the melted butter on the dough.

8. Spread the spice crumbs mixture at one end of the dough and leaving a 3 inch around the edge.

9. Spread the apple fillings and raisins on top of the spice crumbs mixture..

10. Spread one or two tablespoons of apple sauce on top of the apple fillings.

11. Spread another layer of spice crumbs mixture on top.

12. Fold up the edge from the short sides and then the bottom near the filling.

13. Use the table towel and the wax paper to aid in rolling up the strudel roll and sealing it up with melted butter.

14. Once it is roll up, transfer to a greased wax paper filled baking tray.

15. Slice lightly about 2 inches apart along the roll to allow air to escape.

16. Place it in the preheated oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or till golden brown.

17. Let it cool for 15 minutes before sprinkle icing sugar on it. Served with whipped cream or ice cream as desired.

Always wanted to try making Strudel on my own, so I look around and found this recipe and following the instructions, I was able to make it after a couple to tries. Learn to make this recipe from Bernhard’s website.

Would not take the photographs of step by step of working on the dough, but can view the link above for the graphical steps.

Ingredients:
2 cups wheat flour, all purpose
1 whole egg
1/4 cup oil
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1 cup lukewarm water (Need not use all, only when needed.)
Salt, flour to work with

Method:
1. Mix flour, egg, oil, vinegar, water and salt very carefully and knead for at least 5 minutes. The result should be a smooth, not too soft dough.

2. Place the dough on an oiled plate and cover the surface of it with a little oil as well.

3. Cover with foil or a glass-bowl and put it in a warm place (100 F). Let it rest for at least 30 minutes; this is essential,if not the dough will be breaking when we pull it over the table to proceed.

4. Now preheat oven to 370 degrees F. And get ready all the fillings.

5. Spread a clean kitchen towel over your working place (your table), flour it and place the lukewarm dough ball on it.

6. Start spreading it with a rolling pin and later pull the dough with the backs of your floured hands.

7. Work your hands with the backs up under the dough and start to stretch it in all directions.

8. The dough will be as thin as a sheet at the end.

We were thinking about Lana Chocolate Cake and I came across a recipe in Aunty Yochana’s Blog about Steam Moist Chocolate Cake, so I decided to try my hand at it and it was pretty easy to make and it was delicious, rich and yummy that my 4 yr old boy and my dear husband could not stop eating it. And this is the recipe that I have modified a little to suit our taste buds.

Thank you, Aunty Yochana for allowing me to share the recipe on my blog and for the original recipe, do visit Aunty Yochana’s blog from the link above.

Steam moist chocolate cake

Ingredients:
375g canola oil **
1 1/2 cups raw golden sugar
1 can evaporated milk (Carnation Brand)
4 eggs,lightly beaten with a folk
2 cups plain flour ***
1 cup Dutch cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract

*** this recipe can be halve easily

Method:
1. Combine sugar, evaporated milk,vanilla extract and oil in a saucepan. Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved, off fire and keep warm.

2. Add the beaten eggs into the slightly cold evaporated milk mixture and stir till well mix.

3. Sift the flour,cocoa powder,baking powder and baking soda into a large mixing bowl then pour the eggs mixture over the flour and stir till well mix (cake batter should be runny).

4. Heat up the steamer.

5. Lined and greased a 9 inch baking pan or 2 9’inch sandwich pan.

6. Pour the batter into prepared pan and place the pans into the steamer and cover the top of the pan losely with a piece of aluminuim foil.

7. Steam over medium heat for 1 1/2 hour (45 mins for 1/2 recipe/ingredients).

8. Cool the cake in pan before turning out for further decoration.

Chocolate coating ingredients:
1 can condense milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup canola oil
1/3 cup Dutch cocoa powder,sifted
1/8 tsp salt

Method:
1. Combine the sifted cocoa powder,condence milk and oil.

2. Stir over low heat till thicken (stirring all the time).

3. Add in salt and vanilla extract or essence.

4. Cold the chocolate topping a little before spreading on the cold cake.

NOTE :
** If using oil, simply mix all ingredients up and stir till well blended.
*** With a metal spoon fluff up the flour in the bag,and lightly spoon it into the measuring cup while held over a sheet of waxed paper or the flour canister. Let the flour heap up and overflow. Do not TAP or SHAKE the cup to level it. When the flour is over the top,use the flat side of a knife or spatula to sweep off the excess flour so it is level with the top of the cup.

My dear husband was telling me that he missed the tuna buns that I made and requested that I make some. It was really fun for me to bake and I enjoy eating the hot buns from the oven so I happily granted him his request.

And due to my baking mood, instead of just tuna buns, I make peanut butter buns as well as the Cinnamon Buns. With so many buns, we shared some with our neighbours.

Below is the photos of some buns and a couples had been eaten since I removed them from the oven.

Ingredients:
Part A:
1.5 cup Warm water
1 tsp fine sugar
8g active dry yeast

Part B:
5 cups All-purpose flour
2 tbsp fine sugar
1 tsp Salt

Part C:
2/3 cup Milk
3 tbsp Butter
1 large beaten egg

Prepared extra flour for kneading.

1. Dissolve sugar in warm warm and sprinkle the yeast over top. Allow it to stand for 10 minutes or until the yeast has doubled (about 10 to 15 minutes). Stir until yeast dissolve.

2. Sifted Part B into a huge bowl while waiting for Part A to be ready.

3. Add in Part C into Part B and knead. After that add in Part A to knead. Mix until dough pulls away from side of the bowl and is no longer sticky.

4. Knead the dough on a clean and lightly floured surface for 10 minutes and add 1 tbsp of flour at a time if necessary till smooth and elastic. Place dough in a greased extra-large bowl, turning once to greased the top. Cover with greased wax paper and a tea towel. Let it stand in the oven with light on and door closed for 30-45minutes until dough doubled in size.

5. Take the dough out of oven and punch dough down. Turn it on a lightly floured surface and knead for 1 to 2 minutes. Divided the dough into 12 portions. And fill each portion with the filling.

6. After baking the bun, let them stand in the lighted oven for 15-20 minutes, removed from oven. Then heat up the oven to 375 deg F think it is about 180-190 deg C. And bake at the temperature for 25 to 30 minutes (Time varies depending on the size and also oven, so you might have to check every now and then).

As for the filling, it is up to your preference. For this buns, I made use of Tuna.