Mums Baked Semolina Pudding – Gries Auslauf

September 28, 2015

Not yet tested! But it sounds great!

Ingredients

  • 50g butter
  • 1 pint milk
  • 150g Semolina
  • 150g sugar
  • 4 egg yolk
  • 4 egg white – whisked
  • 1/2 lemon – grated rind of..
  • serve with Raspberry juice
  1. Melt butter in frying pan, add milk, and bring to the boil
  2. add a little salt (optional)
  3. Add Semolina and stir until it thickens and peels back from the edges of the pan
  4. Allow to cool
  5. Meanwhile, whisk sugar and egg yolks until light and fluffy
  6. Meanwhile whish egg whites until stiff
  7. Add lemon rind to egg yolks mixture and add that mixture slowly to the Semolina mixture
  8. Fold in Egg whites
  9. Add mixture to a Greased and floured an oven proof dish
  10. Bake for 40 minutes and serve, topped with a little concentrated raspberry juice
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Mums Semolina Special – Griesbrei

September 28, 2015

Childhood memories : Simple Semolina dinner…

Boil 1/2 pint of milk, then turn down heat to minimum and add semolina (1/2 cup perhaps, TBC)

Stir continuously until mixture thickens to consistency of unwhipped double cream, takes about 5 minutes…

Serve on a large plate, tilting plate so semolina spreads evenly over whole plate

Sprinkle on sieved icing sugar and grated plain chocolate.

Eat hot..

 

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Mums Special Apple Crepe – Apfel Schmarrn

September 28, 2015

A very tasty meal, or delicious dessert!

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs whisked in a large bowl
  • 1/2 pt milk
  • 1 cup self raising flour
  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 1 dessertspoon butter for crepe
  • 1 tablespoon butter for apples
  • 1 large bramley apple, peeled, quartered, halved then sliced
  • 1 handful of soaked raisons
  • 1 teaspoon sugar (to taste if apples too sharp)
  • sieved icing sugar for serving

You will need one pan to cook the apples, which can be cooked in advance, one frying pan for the crepe to which the apple mixture is added and one firm flat edged spatula.

  1. Whisk the eggs in a large bowl
  2. Add the Flour and whisk until a smooth paste
  3. Add milk until it looks the consistency of double cream (not whipped)
  4. Leave to stand for 1/2 hour for best results – meanwhile
  5. Prepare the apple
  6. Melt the tablespoon of butter in a saucepan
  7. Soak the raisons in boiling water for a few minutes then drain
  8. Add the sliced apples, sugar to taste and raisons and sauté until the apples begin to soften – keep hot, then
  9. Heat frying pan, add butter to melt then add the crepe mixture to make a very thick crepe (about 1/2 cm thick at least)
  10. Cook one side until golden and the top has begun to set slightly
  11. Turn crepe over, immediately add apple mixture to the top of the golden side of the crepe
  12. Using a flat edge spatula, start to chop the crepe up into small pieces
  13. When evenly chopped, leave undisturbed until it browns golden underneath
  14. Then turn over, chop again, and leave until it browns again
  15. Continue last step until crepe well cooked and pieces all look golden
  16. Serve immediately served with a sprinkling of sieved icing sugar

Can be Served with custard if eaten as a dessert..

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Mums CARIBBEAN chicken

January 23, 2011

Ingredients

  • 1-2 kg boneless, skinless chicken thighs
  • For the sauce
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 1 red pepper, sliced
  • 3 small bananas mashed
  • 200 mg coconut cream in a carton
  • 1 teaspoon (5 ml) chili powder, or fresh chilies
  • 2 limes, juice and zest
  1. Lightly fry the chicken thighs to brown
  2. Place into a shallow oven proof baking dish
  3. Saute the onions and red pepper
  4. Add the mashed bananas, cream, chili, zest and lime juice
  5. Add water to thin
  6. Heat through
  7. Pour over the chicken
  8. Bake covered with foil for 45 (total cooking time 50-60 minutes) @ 180 degrees
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Mums Zwetschken KNOEDEL

January 22, 2011

Plum and Apricot Semolina Dumplings – Austrian Recipe

I just need to double check this delicious recipe with my mother, to make sure  I got it 100% correct, and then I am going to try make it. So please note that this recipe is not tried and tested, yet,  but when it is, it is the best meal, or dessert, ever! It was always a real treat during my childhood.

Ingredients

  • 50 grams softened butter, salted
  • 1 egg, at room temperature and whisked
  • 250 grams full fat curd cheese at room temperature
  • 125 grams sieved plain flour
  • 80 grams semolina
  • 8-10 firm Apricots and/or Plums
  • Butter and breadcrumbs
  • Serve dumplings rolled in golden breadcrumbs with a bowl of sieved Icing sugar on the side.
  1. For the Dumpling Dough
  2. Soften butter and whisk in the whisked egg
  3. Whisk  in the  full fat curd cheese (room temperature)
  4. Fold in  sieved plain flour
  5. Mix in Semolina with a spoon
  6. Add a little salt if unsalted butter is used
  7. Hand mix into one large ball and rest for at least half an hour
  1. For the Dumplings
  2. Boil lots of salted water in large pot
  3. Make dumplings by making a ball and flatten into a round shape about 1/2 – 1 cm thick
  4. Place Apricot or plum into the center and work the dough around the fruit really well
  5. Turn down the heat so the water is not boiling
  6. Gently place the dumplings into the water with a ladle and ensure they don’t stick to the bottom of the pan
  7. Bring back to the boil continuing to ensure the dumplings are free from the base of the pan
  8. Simmer very gently for 10 minutes (15 minutes max)
  9. Meanwhile, heat plenty of butter in a large frying pan and add breadcumbs
  10. Stir breadcrumbs frequently until they are golden
  11. Roll each dumpling in the breadcrumbs to coat the whole dumpling
  12. Place all dumplings on a serving platter and serve with sieved icing sugar
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Mums Blue Cabbage

January 21, 2011

Blaukraut

Ingredients

  • 1 onion
  • bacon cut very small
  • 1 small red cabbage, sliced very thin like noodles
  • 1/4 teaspoon caraway seeds
  • 2 grated cooking apples
  • demerara sugar to taste
  • 1 glass of red wine (or apple juice)
  • a dash of red wine vinegar
  • 1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon flour (or corn flour)
  1. Saute the onions with the bacon
  2. Add sliced red cabbage
  3. Add salt and caraway seeds
  4. Add the apple
  5. Add sugar to taste
  6. Mix well, then add one glass of red wine and a little wine vinegar
  7. cook slowly until soft
  8. Add a tablespoon water mixed with a little flour (or corn flour)  and cook for a few minutes more to thicken..
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Mums TIRAMISU

January 19, 2011

Serves 4-6

Tiramisu is best made the day before and chilled overnight, or frozen for later consumption

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 6 heaped desert spoons of icing sugger
  • 500g mascarpone cheese (2 tubs)
  • 2 packets of sponge fingers
  • choc flakes to decorate
  • 1/4 cup Rum/Brandy
  • 2 cups Black coffee (strong)
  1. Beat eggs yolks and sugar until creamy (about 5 mins)
  2. fold in cheese with a fork
  3. fold in beaten stiff egg whites
  4. add rum to cold coffee, and stir
  5. dunk fingers quickly into coffee and line dish at bottom and sides
  6. pour in 1/2 remaining liquid
  7. Add 1/2 cheese mixture then another layer of soaked sponge biscuits
  8. Add remaining cheese mixture to the top
  9. chill overnight
  10. Sprinkle on chocolate before serving
  11. May be frozen
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Mums SALMON Steaks with Olive and Lemon crust

January 19, 2011

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 4 Salmon fillets
  • 1 handfull of fresh white breadcrumbs
  • 12 Black Olives, pitted and chopped
  • 1 tablespoon chopped  tarragon
  • 1 clove garlic, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
  • 1 tablespoon melted butter (15grams)
  • 4 finely chopped salad onions
  • salt and pepper to taste

Mix together all the topping ingredients and press onto each portion of salmon fillet, and bake for about 20 minutes until done

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Mums Sauerkraut

January 19, 2011
At last I have my own Recipe Website so I can share my mothers delicious Sauerkraut recipe with you. Watch this space, I have many more of her recipes to add.
Ingredients
  • 1 jar                                of Sauerkraut
  • 1 teaspoon                      juniper berries
  • 2 teaspoons                    caraway seeds
  • 1 onion                            diced small
  • 2 rashers                        bacon, diced up small
  • 1 teaspoon                      flour
  • sugar to taste
  1. Put the Sauerkraut in a saucepan with the juniper berries, cover with water, cover with a lid, and simmer for 30 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile  saute the onions and and chopped bacon with the caroway seeds
  3. Strain the sauerkraut when softened, pick out the juniper berries, and add  to onion and backon
  4. Add a teaspoon of flour mixed with water and cook on low until sticky
  5. Add a little sugar to taste …

Sauerkraut
Put in saucepan with 1 teaspoon juniper berries – cover with water and lid and simmer for 30minutes
meanwhile saute onions and small chopped bacon with 2 teaspoons of carroway seeds,

Add strained sauerkraut to onion etc (remove berries) , add teaspoon of flour mixed with water and cook on low until sticky…
add a little sugar…

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