Saturday, March 24, 2012

Simple vanilla cake recipe

ngredients

  • 2 cups (500 mL) sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2-1/2 cups (625 mL) all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup (250 mL) milk
  • 3/4 cup (175 mL) vegetable oil
  • 2-1/4 teaspoons (11 mL) baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon (5 mL) vanilla

Cooking Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Line two 9-inch (23-cm) round cake pans or one 9x13-inch (23 x 33 cm) rectangular baking pan with parchment paper. Grease the paper and the sides of the pan well.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer, beat sugar and eggs together until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Add flour, milk, oil, baking powder, and vanilla and beat for another minute, just until the batter is smooth and creamy. Don't overbeat. Pour batter into the prepared baking pan(s).
  3. Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until the tops are golden and a toothpick poked into the center of the layer comes out clean. (A single rectangular pan will take longer to bake than two round ones.) Loosen the sides of the cake from the pan with a thin knife, then turn out onto a rack and peel off the paper. Let cool completely before covering with frosting, if desired.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Pizza recipe from, Chris Rife

Ingredients

¾ C warm water

1 T yeast

1 T honey

¼ C corn meal

¼ t salt

2 T olive oil

2 C flour


Procedure
  1. Mix 3/4 Cup of warm water, 1 T yeast, 1/4 cup of corn meal & 1T honey.
  2. Let sit until it starts to foam.
  3. Add 1C flour, 1/4 T salt and 2T of oil and mix well with spoon.
  4. Add 1C of flour and knead to create a soft, elastic dough.
  5. Let rise until double. T
  6. transfer to pizza pan sprayed with Pam and sprinkled with corn meal.
  7. I cook the crust for about 10 minutes at 400 and than add toppings. This is a thick crust but not usually as thick as it was in Tahoe.
  8. Cook about 15 to 20 minutes with toppings.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Chewy oat meal cookies with raisin

Ingredients

1 1/4cup flour, all-purpose
1/2teaspoon baking soda
1/2teaspoon salt
1 1/2teaspoon cinnamon




1 1/2cup oatmeal (not, uncooked instant)
1/2cup sugar
1/2cup brown sugar light firmly packed
1cup raisins, seedless
1/2cup vegetable oil
1large egg
1/4cup milk if need for right consistency

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets.

Put 1/14 c flour, 1/2 ts baking soda, 1/2 ts salt, 1 1/2 ts cinnamon, and 1/2 ts nutmeg in a large mixing bowl.

Stir until well mixed. Put the 1 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 c sugar, 1/2 c brown sugar, 1 c raisins, 1/2 c oil, 1 egg, and 1/4 c milk in another large mixing bowl. Stir until well mixed.

Add the flour mixture to the oatmeal mixture. Stir the two together.

Measure out dough using super full teaspoon. Place mounds about 2 inches apart. Wet fingers and press each cookie down jus a little.

Bake 8 ~ 10 minute or until lightly browned on top.

Servings: 30 - two inch round cookies

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Simple White Cake from allrecipes.com

Ingredients

  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 cup milk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners.
  2. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
  3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. For cupcakes, bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Bread pudding

This recipe is from Allrecipes.com

Ingredients

  • 6 slices day-old bread
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups milk
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. Break bread into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan. Drizzle melted butter or margarine over bread. If desired, sprinkle with raisins.
  3. In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Muruku Recipe from Anuradha

Rice flour - 4Cups
Besan flour- 1cup
Jeera/oregano seeds- little
Chili powder
Salt
Butter-1 sick
Water
make a dough in a right consistency and make muruku with desire style.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Ashoka -Nalini

Moong dal -¾ cup
Pachai arisi flour (rice)- ¼ cup
Milk -1 cup
Water- 3 cup
Cardamom minced - 5pods
Cashew nut fried in gee - 1/4cup
Ghee-1/2 cup
Jagrri chopped -2 cup
Fry moong dal for 5 min to reduce the dal small.
Add moong dal with rice flour + 3 cups of water + milk
Put lid on the pressure cooker and bring to boil. Reduce to simmer and cook for 20 minutes (five whistles).
Mix well the cooked dal and rice.
Add vellam/jaggri and mix in small flame. Add gee and cashew nut and cardamom.
Now it is ready to eat.