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Can someone please enlighten me where in Luxor I can get hold of white fine-grained sugar suitable for baking? Or, please give me a hint on how to bake cakes on the normal "yellow" sugar....
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There is no reason why you cannot use cane suger for cake-making. Refined beet sugar is less sweet, or you could use icing sugar, honey, or golden syrum, or even sugar-water to make cakes. If you are...
One cannot learn how to cook from a cook book receipe. Here is exactly how to make perfect cheese and onion quiche every time in a Bottle Gas oven using nothing but local Egyptian ingredients.
You...
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I Will try! I dont use receipes as a rule, so you can simply measure out in mugs. What you will need is as follows:
An electric mixer.
Ordinary plain Egyptian flour.
Icing Sugar,
Ordinary...
I just made this few days ago. It was fast and easy to make and you can find all the ingrediants from here! Something else for a change from chickpeas than hummus.
Chickpea Curry (4-6)
2 cans...
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Oh lovely !! :P :P 0
I make cauliflower and cashew nut curry add a few carrots fresh ginger chillis garlic lemon juice and some curry paste (cheat!) and serve with plain boiled rice mmm I'm hungry...
8oz dried figs
4oz raisins (stoned)
8oz dates (stoned)
3oz stem ginger
2-3 tablespoons brandy or rum
6oz fresh white breadcrumbs
8oz self raising flour
6oz shredded suet
good pinch...
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:oo
I think I have to try Spotted D*ck even once in my life.
Hepzi, is there anything else I could use instead if suet :?: I'm sorry but it sounds awful if I can trust my dictionary on this.
On saturday we went to Hawes in Wenslydale its a lovely place and when there visited the cheese centre ended up with loads of cheese!!(shame xmas is so far off) with cranberries ginger blue...
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you can't buy better than cheddar bought from one of the farms from the area - the main advantage is that they also sell scrumpy and let you have free samples - happy days
I have never made or tasted steamed pudding but I think it would be fun to try one.
I have this one recipe and what I like about it, it seems I do not have to make it in oven but I can use my cooker....
HELP!!!!!! for ramadam i always make a effort to cook sweets biscuits so thats what i did and cakes but my husband has requested konafa so we bought konafa but how do you make it as i have forgotten...
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ah absolutly brill warda :hug: you saved me thks and happy ramadam ;)to you
I've been reading all these old messages in kitchen corner and lots of people are missing Heinz Salad Cream. I'm not sure if I have ever tasted a salad cream but I'm sure going to try it. Here are...
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When I get really enthusiastic, I have been known to make my own mayonnaise too! Delicious!!!! Far superior to hellmans - just seems so much work for such a small amount - so has to be used sparingly!
Indian Lamb Curry
1 1/2 lbs boneless lamb, trimmed of fat and cut into pieces (or beef)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 bay leaves
1 black cardamom pod
1 (2 inch) cinnamon sticks
10 peppercorns
4 whole...
In Luxor it's hard to find good spice mixtures so I have started to do some myself. Here we buy spices directly from market and only after good cleaning and "dusting" I store them. This is a good...
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I love the sound of the Dukka and really must get round to having a go at some of these things.
By popular (alright 1) demand in 'General Discussions' I present at great expense the following Christmas Cake recipe from Mrs Beeton, the 1912 edition. My own bolt-on goodies are at the end. Cost:...
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Great recipe!!! Even got most of the ingredients in! (except for sherry - do you think a great big slug of cherry brandy would do instead?!)
Now if only I could locate marzipan and royal icing, I'd...
I've just spent a horrific half hour in the kitchen de-heading, de-shelling and de-veining these nasty things!!! What a horrible task that was! I'm hoping that by the time it comes to eat them - I'll...
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I wonder how many of us reading this yesterday suddenly got a craving for prawns :lol: I know I did and like Horus I hunted in the freezer but nothing 'prawny'
Tomorrow I am going to have a...
I just had a great big dish of this made by the Fuul and Felafel man - the little devil had put about 5 chillies on top so now I'm on fire!
It's a...
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My lips are still on fire!!! The chilli level does tend to vary in a lot of cookery here. A few weeks back I took a huge bite out of a felafel sandwich - only to find a whole chilli hiding in the...
Green vegetables are important to the African diet. In Kenya, collard greens are both cheap and popular. The dish sukuma wiki literally translates to "stretch the week." In Africa the following...
Do Egyptians cook something else than Egyptian food? I don’t mean in places like in Luxor because my lucky guess is they most definitely do not cook fancy Italian or French food :lol: I understand...
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not a butcher but there is a grocer in the next town that sells halal meat, think I might have to pay him a visit.
When I first got here I was really pleased to see KFC - just as a treat! The first time I went in I was gutted to discover that there was no corn on the cob and no gravy! Used to love going home from...
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