Home-Brew Recipes

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Everybody likes to be a “clever cook” but very few people are able to cook mouth-watering and tempting dishes without spending a fortune. Mostly, kids and adult people of all ages are fond of eating cakes which are made of chocolate as a morning snack or teatime treat so many women are learning to cook Chocolate Cake Recipe in recent days. By using chocolate and cocoa powder, we can make a wide variety of dishes like chocolate and banana fool, chocolate mousse cake, eggless chocolate cake, oat chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip brownies, milk chocolate crispy cookies, chocolate ripple ice-cream, black forest cake and much more. Keep in mind that chocolate cake is very easy to make and tasty to eat.

There are lots of steps to be followed by you while preparing a rich chocolate cake. Cocoa powder, vanilla essence, eggs, butter, baking powder, nuts, mixed dried fruits, sugar, water, plain flour and a pinch of salt are some of the main ingredients that are necessary for making chocolate cake.

First of all, you should take a bowl and add the all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, egg, butter and sugar. You have to rub in until all the ingredients that are available in the bowl blends well. Then, you can add water, vanilla essence, a pinch of salt and baking powder to the mixture and stir for few minutes. When the cake mixture comes to moist consistency, you can transfer it to the baking pan. You have to keep the baking pan in an oven which has been preheated to 180⁰C. Nearly, 1 hour will be needed to bake the cake and finally you can serve the chocolate cake by sprinkling nuts and dried fruit. Chocolate Cake Recipe is an online resource that has been helpful for the women who don’t know to prepare cakes.

Let us see the preparation of hot and spicy sesame biscuits! Take 250g of rice flour and add one teaspoon of fried and powdered black gram, cut coriander leaves and curry leaves, two teaspoons of chili powder, a little of salt, and two teaspoons of butter. Now mix the contents well to make a dough of it. After some thirty minutes, take small balls of the dough and flatten them into small shapes of biscuits.

Keep oil in medium flame and when it gets heated, fry these flat biscuits to reddish brown. Do not fail to fry both the sides of the biscuits as they required equal flame. Then take it off the oil, remove the excess oil over the blotting paper and serve it hot! These hot and spicy biscuits are at their best when given for the sudden guests on a cool evening!

These ring-shaped rolls are fantastic for breakfast spread with jam or lunch topped with any number of foods, including, cheese, cold meats, and smoked salmon, chopped vegetables. The dough is first boiled to give it a chewy texture and then baked in the oven.

Ingredients:

7g – packed easy-blend dried yeast, corn meal, 250ml – lukewarm water, 1 – egg yolk, 25ml – salt, 500g – strong white bread flour, oil for greasing and 30ml – sugar.

Preparation Method:

1. In a bowl, combine the yeast, salt and flour. Pour the lukewarm water into a separate large bowl.
2. Add half of the flour to the lukewarm water, beating until it forms a smooth, soft batter.
3. Knead the remaining flour into the batter until the mixture forms fairly smooth dough that is easy to handle without being too sticky.
4. On a lightly floured surface knead the dough by hand for 10 – 20 minutes or, if using bread machine, 5-8 minutes until shiny and smooth. If the dough is sticky, add a little more flour.
5. Lightly oil a bowl. Place the dough in it and turn to coat it completely in oil. Cover with a clean dishtowel and leave in a warm place for about 40 minutes, or until dissolved in size.
6. Turn the dough on to a lightly floured surface and punch down with your fists. Knead for 4 minutes or until smooth and elastic.
7. Divide the dough into 12 balls. Poke your thumb through each one then, working with your fingers, open the hole to form a bagel measuring 6cm. Place on a floured board and leave to rise for 20 minutes or until doubled in size.
8. Preheat the oven to 200^o C. Bring 4 liters water to boil in a large pan and add the sugar. Lower the heat to a gentle boil. Lightly oil a baking sheet and sprinkle with corn meal. Beat the egg yolk with 15ml.
9. Add the bagels, one at time, to the boiling water, until you have a single layer of bagels. Cook for 8minutes, turning so that they cook evenly. Remove the bagels from the pan with a slotted sppon, drain and place on the prepared baking sheet.
10. Brush each bagel with the egg mixture. Bake for about 25 minutes, until well browned. Cool on a wire rack.

Stunning to look at and absolutely delicious to eat, this glazed dried fruit bread is perfect for any occasion. Simply leave it to cool in the tin and then slice and seve either on its own to spread with butter for a really decadent treat. It can also be made and given as a gift, wrapped in polythene and tied with a bow. This recipe makes two loaves, but you could halve the quantities and just make one loaf, if you prefer.

Ingredients:

25oml – milk, ½ cup – butter, ¼ oz packets easy-blend dried yeast, 1 – beaten egg, 115 g – candied peel, melted butter, icing sugar, nuts, 90g – caster sugar, 2.5ml – salt, 2.5ml – cardamom pods, 500g- white bread flour.

Preparation Method:

1. Grease two 450g loaf tins or a large baking tray. In a pan, bring the milk to just to just below boiling point. Add the butter and stir until melted. Pour into a large, heatproof of bowl and leave until lukewarm.
2. Put the water and the 5ml sugar in a small bowl, sprinkle in the yeast and leave in the warm place for 15 minutes until frothy.
3. Add the egg to the milk mixture then add the yeast mixture, remaining sugar, salt and cardamom pods. Add half the flour and beat the mixture.
4. Dust the fruit generously with flour, stir to mix and add to the mixture with sufficient flour to make a stiff dough that leaves the sides of the bowl clean.
5. Turn the dough on to a lightly floured surface and knead well until the dough feels firm and elastic. Put the dough in a bowl, cover with a damp dish towel and leave in a warm place to rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
6. Turn the risen dough on to a lightly floured surface, knock down and knead again for 2 minutes.
7. Shape the dough into two loaves and place in the prepared tins and put on the baking tray. Leave to rise again for 1 hour.
8. Preheat the oven to 180^o C. If you wish, brush the loaves with beaten egg to glaze.
9. Place in the heated oven and bake for 30 minutes until golden brown and the loaves sound hollow when knocked on the bottom.
10. Brush the cooked loaves with melted butter or dust with icing sugar and decorate with glace cherries and nuts. Leave to cool on a wire rack, then serve in slices.

This scrumptious pie is so easy to make. Simply press the wonderfully biscuit pastry into the tin rather than rolling it out. Add the fudge-toffee filling and sliced banana topping and it’ll prove irresistible.

Ingredients:

115g – diced butter, 200g – skimmed sweetened condensed milk, 30ml – golden syrup, 2 – sliced small bananas, a little lemon juice, whipped cream to decorate, 5ml – grated plain chocolate, 115g – diced butter, 150g – plain flour, 50g – caster sugar, 115g – light muscovado sugar.

Preparation Method:

1. First, oven is preheated to Gas5 or 160^o C. Using food-mixer, make dough by mixing flour and diced butter together whereas caster sugar can also be stirred and used in the flour and butter mixture.
2. The prepared dough can be kept in a 20cm tart pan for baking it.
3. The filing procedure is also very simple. Condensed milk, brown sugar, butter and syrup are required to make the filing. Mix all these ingredients and heat until the mixture’s color changes into light caramel.
4. Remove the caramel filing from heat and place it into the pastry case and leave is aside so that it gets cooled.
5. Decorate the Boston banoffee pie by sprinkling the banana slices along with the lemon juice and grated chocolate. By arranging the pie, a swirl of cream can also be kept in the centre of the pie which makes the recipe to look great.

These crunchy cookies are easy enough for children to make and are sure to disappear as soon as they are baked.

Ingredients:

115g – butter, 2 – lightly beaten eggs, 5ml – vanilla essence, 115g – rolled oats, 175g – plain chocolate chips, 115g – pecan nuts chopped, 115g – soft dark brown sugar, 150g – plain flour, 5ml – baking powder and pinch of salt.

Preparation Method:

1. Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl, until pale and fluffy. Add the lightly beaten eggs, milk and vanilla essence and beat thoroughly.
2. Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt, and stir in until well mixed. Fold in the rolled oats, chocolate chips and chopped pecan nuts.
3. Chill the mixture in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 180^o C. Grease two large baking trays.
4. Using two teaspoons, place mounds of the mixture well apart on the trays and flatten with a spoon or fork.
5. Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes in the preheated oven until the edges are just coloring, then cool on wire racks.