jueves, 13 de noviembre de 2008

Bye

We´re finishing with our blog of recipes. The recipes are very tasty and very entertaining of elaborating. We'll try do them but now we don't have free time...


Our exams go well.Now we have to write in the blogs of class.
Goodbye.







Vanesa 'nd Iris

lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2008

Cream Cake with Strawberries

Cream cake with strawberries:

















The American Indians already were eating strawberries when the settlers came. The crushed berries were mixed by flour of corn and cooked to the oven to do bread of strawberry. After proving this bread, the settlers developed his own version of the recipe and the cake or cake of strawberry was created.


INGREDIENTS:

2 3/4 cups cake flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

2 cups white sugar

1 (3 ounce) package strawberry flavored gelatin

1 cup butter, softened

4 eggs

1 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup strawberries, pureed

1 1/2 cups heavy cream

2 tablespoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, sliced
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

4 cups confectioners' sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups quartered strawberries

RECIPE:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Grease and flour three 9 inch round cake pans.
In a large bowl, beat sugar, gelatin and butter until fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition.
Mix flour and baking powder, and beat alternately with the milk into the sugar mixture. Fold in 1 teaspoon vanilla and pureed strawberries.
Divide equally into three 9 inch round cake pans.
Bake 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.

Cool for 10 minutes in the pans, then remove from pans and cool completely.
To make the filling: Beat whipping cream, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla on high until stiff.

Fill each layer with 1/3 of the whipped cream and 3/4 cup sliced strawberries.
To make the frosting: Beat the margarine, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla until creamy.

Spread over the sides of the cake, and pipe an edge of frosting around the top of the cake.
Spread remaining whipped cream on cake top.

Top with quartered strawberries.

lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2008

Crumble

The first recipe is this:


Crumble:

















This is a cake make with fruit.The fruits are covered with a mass of flour, sugar and lard. It´s in the habit of using accompanied as custard or ice-cream and warm.
The most used fruits are: the apples, the defaults and the pears.
It is possible to do the mass with flour and butter


It was born in England in the second World war.


Ingredients:

50 gr. of sugar

50 gr. of almonds in powder.

60 gr. of butter

1 yolk of eggs

250 gr. of strawberries

100 gr. of raspberries

100 gr. of defaults

100 gr. of currants




Ice cream of vanilla:

25 cl. Of milk
5 cl. Of pasteurized cream
1 bar of vanilla
4 yolks of eggs
40 gr. of sugar





Recipe:


Prepare the ice-cream:


Set the milk to boil, together with the cream and the grains of vanilla.
It beats the yolks of egg with the sugar, until the mixture remains whitish.
Later untie it with the milk hirviendo, without stopping beating.
Leave it to slow fire during 5 minutes, removing continuously until the mixture become thick.
It extinguishes the fire just before it starts to boil and put the pan in cold water.
It allows that it should cool, removing occasionally.
To throw this cold cream in a refrigerator and to allow that the ice cream should be done in the freezer.


To prepare the mass of the crumble:
To mix the sugar, the almonds in powder, 50 gr. of butter, the flour and the yolk of the egg. It rubs these ingredients between your hands, up to obtaining a few fat crumbs.
Extend them in a plate covered with paper sulfurizado.
To wash and to cut the strawberries for the half.
To wash well the currants.
To put the mass of the crumble in the oven preheated to 170 ° during approximately 12 minutes. In a frying pan to put the butter and to attack during 2 minutes the chunks of strawberries, the currants, the raspberries and the defaults.
Repratir the red fruits mixed in the plates, to throw above the mass of the still warm crumble, and to place aside an ice cream of vanilla.
To serve immediately.

lunes, 20 de octubre de 2008

Presentation

Hi!! How are all?? We fine thanks ha, ha, ha.


We are two girls from Spain,our names are Vanesa and Iris and we are making a blog about recipes of English food.



This blog is a project of the english class,

We had to choose between different topics and we choose that of the eaten ones


We will centre on desserts but we also write about other recipes.