segunda-feira, 16 de novembro de 2020
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
~ Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor.
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."
~ Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), English novelist.
Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree."
~ Charlotte Carpenter.
There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
~ Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland. Michael O'Brien (Charles Winninger), Beyond Tomorrow, after proposing that the partners invite three strangers to dinner (1940).
To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world."
~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).
All Natural Orange Vinegar All-Purpose Cleaner
Koeksisters
If I can make this, ANYONE can !
Ingredients– dough:
2 cups cake flour
2 tablespoon baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 large egg
4 tbsp butter/margarine
½ cup of water
oil for frying
Ingredients – syrup:
1kg sugar
1 ½ cinnamon sticks
½ tsp ground ginger
1 ½ cups of water
juice of one lemon
Method – dough:
1. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
2. Rub in the butter and mix until pliable.
3. Mix this with the egg and water (adding the water a little at a time).
4. Work the dough well. If the dough appears to be lumpy and sticky, continue to work the dough until it will ball up.
5. Let the dough rest at room temperature for about three hours (under an inverted mixing bowl).
Method – syrup:
1. Prepare the syrup a day before (it needs to be very cold).
2. Dissolve sugar in the water.
3. Add the spices and lemon juice to this and boil together. Leave the syrup cool in the fridge overnight. I devide my syrup into two and keep it in the freezer overnight. The secret to getting the syrup into the centre of the koeksister is that the hoter the koeksister and the colder the syrup it just shloops it in !
To prepare the koeksisters:
1. Roll out the dough (thickness 5mm).
2. Cut the dough into strips of 6cm long, 2cm wide.
3. Cut each of these strips into three strips (not all the way through, leave the strips connected at the top).
4. Plat each strip, pinch together at the end of the strip.
5. Deep fry until golden brown.
6. Remove and drain quickly – dip the hot koeksisters in the cold syrup (that was stored in the fridge up to now).
7. The secret is to keep the syrup cold and the koeksisters hot, this way it will draw just the right amount of syrup.
8. You can keep the syrup cold by keeping the syrup bowl in another container filled with iced water.
½ tsp salt
1 large egg
4 tbsp butter/margarine
½ cup of water
oil for frying
Ingredients – syrup:
1kg sugar
1 ½ cinnamon sticks
½ tsp ground ginger
1 ½ cups of water
juice of one lemon
Method – dough:
1. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
2. Rub in the butter and mix until pliable.
3. Mix this with the egg and water (adding the water a little at a time).
4. Work the dough well. If the dough appears to be lumpy and sticky, continue to work the dough until it will ball up.
5. Let the dough rest at room temperature for about three hours (under an inverted mixing bowl).
Method – syrup:
1. Prepare the syrup a day before (it needs to be very cold).
2. Dissolve sugar in the water.
3. Add the spices and lemon juice to this and boil together. Leave the syrup cool in the fridge overnight. I devide my syrup into two and keep it in the freezer overnight. The secret to getting the syrup into the centre of the koeksister is that the hoter the koeksister and the colder the syrup it just shloops it in !
To prepare the koeksisters:
1. Roll out the dough (thickness 5mm).
2. Cut the dough into strips of 6cm long, 2cm wide.
3. Cut each of these strips into three strips (not all the way through, leave the strips connected at the top).
4. Plat each strip, pinch together at the end of the strip.
5. Deep fry until golden brown.
6. Remove and drain quickly – dip the hot koeksisters in the cold syrup (that was stored in the fridge up to now).
7. The secret is to keep the syrup cold and the koeksisters hot, this way it will draw just the right amount of syrup.
8. You can keep the syrup cold by keeping the syrup bowl in another container filled with iced water.
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