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Apple and Cinnamon Hot Cross Buns
By sarah_carroll
Combine 260gm sugar and 375ml water in a saucepan, then squeeze in juice of half a lemon and stir over medium-high ...
- 325 gm raw caster sugar
- 1 lemon
- 1 ½ Granny Smith apples, unpeeled, cored, diced
- 1 cinnamon quill
- 750 gm (5 cups) plain flour
- 150 gm sultanas or golden raisins
- 50 gm dried apple, diced
- 30 gm candied orange, diced
- 14 gm (2 sachets) dried yeast
- 3 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp allspice
- Finely grated rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon
- 380 ml milk
- 100 gm butter, coarsely chopped
- 1 egg
Garlic and Herb Grilled Sweet Potato Fries
By sarah_carroll
Place the potatoes in a large pot of cold water, add 2 tablespoons of salt and cook until potatoes are tender, but ...
- 6 large sweet potatoes
- Salt
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon red chili flakes
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Little Meringues
By sarah_carroll
1 Preheat oven to 120C. Whisk eggwhite and a pinch of salt in an electric mixer until firm peaks form (3-4 minutes...
- 200 gm eggwhite (from about 5 eggs)
- 200 gm caster sugar
- 200 gm pure icing sugar
- 30 gm cornflour
Sugar Dough
By sarah_carroll
Cream butter and sugar Add eggs Add remaining ingredients and mix until smooth
- 10 # butter
- 6 # sugar
- 18 eggs
- vanilla
- 5 # ap flour
- 10 # cake flour
- salt
- 4 oz baking powder
Chocolate Sauce
By sarah_carroll
Place the cream and milk in a saucepan over medium heat
- 200 ml pure (thin) cream
- 50 ml milk
- 200 g dark chocolate, chopped
- 20 g good-quality cocoa powder
Chicken Fricassee with Orzo
By sarah_carroll
Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper
- 4 (4-ounce) skinned, boned chicken breast halves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoons butter or stick margarine
- 3/4 cup chopped green onions
- 1/2 cup diced carrot
- 1/2 cup diced ham
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
- 1/2 cup Chardonnay or other dry white wine
- 1/3 cup whipping cream
- 3 cups hot cooked orzo (about 1 1/2 cups uncooked rice-shaped pasta)
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- Parsley sprigs (optional)
Beef and Guinness Pie
By sarah_carroll
For pastry, sift flour, mustard powder and 1 t salt into a bowl, then stir in the suet
- 1/3 c plain flour
- 1 kg diced chuck or blade steak
- 140 ml sunflower oil
- 30 g unsalted butter
- 220 g small button mushrooms
- 2 onions, thinly sliced
- 2 T sugar
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 300 ml good quality beef stock
- 300 ml Guinness
- 2 T tomato paste
- Leaves from 3 thyme sprigs
- 2 T worcestershire sauce
- Mustard Suet Crust
- 175 g self raising flour, plus extra to dust
- 2 t mustard powder
- 40 g powdered suet mix
- 1 yolk, lightly beaten
Vegetable tagine with chickpeas
By sarah_carroll
To make Chermoula Lightly roast coriander and cumin seeds in pan
- Chermoula marinade
- 1 roasted red pepper
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 red chilli
- 4 cloves ground
- 3 tsp coriander seeds ground
- 3 tsp cumin seeds ground
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 3/4 cup coriander (50gms)
- 3/4 cup Italian parsley
- 10 mint leaves
- Rind and flesh of 1 lemon (disregard pith)
- Vegetables
- 8 baby shallots (or small baby onions)
- 400 gms sweet potatoes
- 1 fennel, quartered
- 3 kipfler potatoes
- 1 red capsicum, cut into thick strips
- 3 baby eggplant, cut in half length ways
- 1 zucchini, cut into about 6
- 4 roma tomatoes, cut in half
- 1 cinnamon quill
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cups vegetable stock
- 10 pitted prunes
- 1 cup chickpeas, cooked
- Cous cous
- 2 cups of cous cous
- Enough hot water to just cover cous cous
- 1 red onion, finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 tablespoon Oil
- 2 tablespoon preserved lemon, chopped
- 3 tablespoon flaked almonds
- Salt and pepper
- Handful of parsley
- Handful of mint
- Handful of coriander
Goat's cheese fritters
By sarah_carroll
Place ricotta, goat's cheese, flour and thyme in a bowl, season, then mash with a fork
- 500 g fresh ricotta
- 400 g soft goat's cheese
- 1/4 c plain flour
- 2 t thyme leaves, chopped
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 c dry breadcrumbs
- sunflower oil, to deep fry
Caramel and Apple Upside Down Cake
By sarah_carroll
Preheat oven to 170C. Grease and line the base of a round, loose bottomed 25 cm cake pan
- 5 royal gala apples, cored and cut into 6 wedges
- 495 g caster sugar
- 300 g unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 t vanilla extract
- 300 g plain flour
- 1 T baking powder
- 75 g ground almonds
- 1 t ground cardamom
- 7 eggs, at room temp
- 80 ml milk