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Cooking for Christmas
For those of you who are starting their Christmas cookie exchanges at work
and for those of us doing baking for the holiday, I found this page with tons of recipes! Hugs, Melody http://www.santas.net/recipes.htm |
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Thank you Melody I always like a few new things - started in on my old
favourites on Saturday , Almond crisps and my old favourite custard powder ones and today a cherry and coconut slice - since i am not at work I always makes up little baskets of goodies for friends and neighbours God bless Gwen -- Gwen Kelly "Angelicsong" wrote in message le.rogers.com... For those of you who are starting their Christmas cookie exchanges at work and for those of us doing baking for the holiday, I found this page with tons of recipes! Hugs, Melody http://www.santas.net/recipes.htm |
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May we have the recipes please Gwen?
warmly Ophelia "G.Kelly" wrote in message ... Thank you Melody I always like a few new things - started in on my old favourites on Saturday , Almond crisps and my old favourite custard powder ones and today a cherry and coconut slice - since i am not at work I always makes up little baskets of goodies for friends and neighbours God bless Gwen -- Gwen Kelly "Angelicsong" wrote in message le.rogers.com... For those of you who are starting their Christmas cookie exchanges at work and for those of us doing baking for the holiday, I found this page with tons of recipes! Hugs, Melody http://www.santas.net/recipes.htm |
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Of course - I will have to rack my brain to come up with the "original" ( I
seem to add and subtract sometimes) so give me a day or two and I will jot them all down for you all -there about six that are MUSTS - my DDs simply could not survive Christmas without them so these I will send. god Bless gwen -- Gwen Kelly "Ophelia" wrote in message ... May we have the recipes please Gwen? warmly Ophelia "G.Kelly" wrote in message ... Thank you Melody I always like a few new things - started in on my old favourites on Saturday , Almond crisps and my old favourite custard powder ones and today a cherry and coconut slice - since i am not at work I always makes up little baskets of goodies for friends and neighbours God bless Gwen -- Gwen Kelly "Angelicsong" wrote in message le.rogers.com... For those of you who are starting their Christmas cookie exchanges at work and for those of us doing baking for the holiday, I found this page with tons of recipes! Hugs, Melody http://www.santas.net/recipes.htm |
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Ophelia I hope you like these -
LADY ALICE BISCUITS ( OR CUSTARD POWDER BISCUITS) 6 ozs Plain flour, 2 ozs Custard powder, 2 oz icing sugar 3 ozs butter, 3 ozs margarine, pinch salt & little vanilla essence Cream butter, margarine ,sugar, essence and salt the work in flour and custard powder. Put in a biscuit forcer , place on a greased tray ( or baking paper as I do) 180 celcius for 15 minutes. It is important that you have butter & marg not just butter or marg. CHOCOLATE BISCUITS 6 oz self raising flour,4 oz corn flour,6ozs icing sugar, 6oz butter 1 oz cocoa( I use 3 highly heaped desertspoons) 1 egg, vanilla Cream butter and sugar add egg and cream then stir in the other ingredients. Out through a biscuit forcer. Place on baking paper and bake 180 celcius for about 14 or 15 minutes. When cold sandwich with a butter icing. I usually make a lot of the Lady Alice in different shapes and then I sandwich some with a butter icing- others I decorate with a half of a glase cherrie, and some I leave as they are. FRUIT SLICES Make your favourite everyday biscuit mix - mine has no recipe I just start with a quantity of margarine about 250 grams and enough sugar to make them as sweet as you like- cream this and add an egg and then work in enough self raising flour to make it the consistency of short pastry. In fact I use this for all my pies too. Roll out on baking paper the size of your biscuit tray then spread with filling and then place another layer of the biscuit mix on top -cut into finger length pieces and prick with a fork and sprinkle with sugar Filling depending on how much pastry you have made you may alter the quantities. The basic quantities I invented when I thought these up was about three cups of mixed dried fruit ( sultanas, currents etc) place in a saucepan over low heat with about a half cup of water and cook until soft then either put through a blender or use a bar mix and mince them up. The add two tablespoons of drinking chocolate and a heaped tablespoon of butter and again cook slowly ( add a little more water it the mix looks so thick it might burn) and this will give the fruit a little caramel/chocolate taste. All these biscuits both filled and not filled will keep in an airtight tin for months FOR AFTER COFFEE Cherie Slices. ½ lb copha ( or 500 gr), 1 cup drinking chocolate, a 200 gr packet of glace cherries, 1 tin sweetened condensed milk (395 gr), ½ lb coconut a tiny drop of pink colouring ( you want it pink not red) and packet of morning coffee biscuits ( any thin arrowroot type biscuit will do) Line a tray with the biscuits and leave out for a day or so to soften Melt ¼ lb of the copha, add cherries, coconut, condensed milk and colour and spread over the biscuits. Heat the other ¼ lb of copha and mix into the drinking chocolate spread over the cherrie mix and refrigerate to set. When set cut into small squares and keep refrigerated in our climate but for your Christmas temp I guess this would not be necessary. They will keep for months in the fridge. Caramel slices 1 cup self raising flour,1 cup coconut, ½ cup brown sugar, 1 cup of rolled oats( oatmeal). 150 gr butter (melted), 1 tin sweetened condensed milk (395 gr) 2 tablespoons of golden syrup ( I do not know if you have this - I know you have corn syrup but that is a clear syrup while golden syrup is just that - golden. I guess treacle would do 30 gr of extra butter,150 gr of dark cooking chocolate, 20 gr copha Combine first 5 ingredients in bowl and mix well and press into the base of a foil lined 18cm x 28 cm tin ( or a combination that makes up that size). Bake 180 celcius for 12 minutes. Combine the milk, syrup and extra butter in a saucepan , bring to the boil, lower heat and simmer for 6 minutes stirring all the time Pour caramel over the biscuit base and cook another 12 minutes then let cool Combine melted chocolate and copha in a saucepan till all melted then coat the caramel and put in fridge to set. Cut into squares when set. Of course I always make marshmallows and coconut ice as well. So these are the MUST MAKES for Christmas in our household for desert on Christmas day i make a pie crust ( using "recipe" of the fruit slices) and then I lightly poach a mixture of all the stone fruit we have ripe at Christmas time - peaches, apricots, cherries etc. with a little sugar and then arrange them in a pretty pattern in the pie crust. I then use the "juice' that they were poached in by thickening it a little with arrowroot and then pouring it over the arranged fruit as a glaze. Served with ice cream or fresh whipped cream ( or both). God Bless Gwen .. .. .. .. ..-- Gwen Kelly "Ophelia" wrote in message ... May we have the recipes please Gwen? warmly Ophelia "G.Kelly" wrote in message ... Thank you Melody I always like a few new things - started in on my old favourites on Saturday , Almond crisps and my old favourite custard powder ones and today a cherry and coconut slice - since i am not at work I always makes up little baskets of goodies for friends and neighbours God bless Gwen -- Gwen Kelly "Angelicsong" wrote in message le.rogers.com... For those of you who are starting their Christmas cookie exchanges at work and for those of us doing baking for the holiday, I found this page with tons of recipes! Hugs, Melody http://www.santas.net/recipes.htm |
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Gosh.. thank you very much Gwen)
These are saved and will be tested in full) Ophelia "G.Kelly" wrote in message ... Ophelia I hope you like these - LADY ALICE BISCUITS ( OR CUSTARD POWDER BISCUITS) 6 ozs Plain flour, 2 ozs Custard powder, 2 oz icing sugar 3 ozs butter, 3 ozs margarine, pinch salt & little vanilla essence Cream butter, margarine ,sugar, essence and salt the work in flour and custard powder. Put in a biscuit forcer , place on a greased tray ( or baking paper as I do) 180 celcius for 15 minutes. It is important that you have butter & marg not just butter or marg. CHOCOLATE BISCUITS 6 oz self raising flour,4 oz corn flour,6ozs icing sugar, 6oz butter 1 oz cocoa( I use 3 highly heaped desertspoons) 1 egg, vanilla Cream butter and sugar add egg and cream then stir in the other ingredients. Out through a biscuit forcer. Place on baking paper and bake 180 celcius for about 14 or 15 minutes. When cold sandwich with a butter icing. I usually make a lot of the Lady Alice in different shapes and then I sandwich some with a butter icing- others I decorate with a half of a glase cherrie, and some I leave as they are. FRUIT SLICES Make your favourite everyday biscuit mix - mine has no recipe I just start with a quantity of margarine about 250 grams and enough sugar to make them as sweet as you like- cream this and add an egg and then work in enough self raising flour to make it the consistency of short pastry. In fact I use this for all my pies too. Roll out on baking paper the size of your biscuit tray then spread with filling and then place another layer of the biscuit mix on top -cut into finger length pieces and prick with a fork and sprinkle with sugar Filling depending on how much pastry you have made you may alter the quantities. The basic quantities I invented when I thought these up was about three cups of mixed dried fruit ( sultanas, currents etc) place in a saucepan over low heat with about a half cup of water and cook until soft then either put through a blender or use a bar mix and mince them up. The add two tablespoons of drinking chocolate and a heaped tablespoon of butter and again cook slowly ( add a little more water it the mix looks so thick it might burn) and this will give the fruit a little caramel/chocolate taste. All these biscuits both filled and not filled will keep in an airtight tin for months FOR AFTER COFFEE Cherie Slices. ½ lb copha ( or 500 gr), 1 cup drinking chocolate, a 200 gr packet of glace cherries, 1 tin sweetened condensed milk (395 gr), ½ lb coconut a tiny drop of pink colouring ( you want it pink not red) and packet of morning coffee biscuits ( any thin arrowroot type biscuit will do) Line a tray with the biscuits and leave out for a day or so to soften Melt ¼ lb of the copha, add cherries, coconut, condensed milk and colour and spread over the biscuits. Heat the other ¼ lb of copha and mix into the drinking chocolate spread over the cherrie mix and refrigerate to set. When set cut into small squares and keep refrigerated in our climate but for your Christmas temp I guess this would not be necessary. They will keep for months in the fridge. Caramel slices 1 cup self raising flour,1 cup coconut, ½ cup brown sugar, 1 cup of rolled oats( oatmeal). 150 gr butter (melted), 1 tin sweetened condensed milk (395 gr) 2 tablespoons of golden syrup ( I do not know if you have this - I know you have corn syrup but that is a clear syrup while golden syrup is just that - golden. I guess treacle would do 30 gr of extra butter,150 gr of dark cooking chocolate, 20 gr copha Combine first 5 ingredients in bowl and mix well and press into the base of a foil lined 18cm x 28 cm tin ( or a combination that makes up that size). Bake 180 celcius for 12 minutes. Combine the milk, syrup and extra butter in a saucepan , bring to the boil, lower heat and simmer for 6 minutes stirring all the time Pour caramel over the biscuit base and cook another 12 minutes then let cool Combine melted chocolate and copha in a saucepan till all melted then coat the caramel and put in fridge to set. Cut into squares when set. Of course I always make marshmallows and coconut ice as well. So these are the MUST MAKES for Christmas in our household for desert on Christmas day i make a pie crust ( using "recipe" of the fruit slices) and then I lightly poach a mixture of all the stone fruit we have ripe at Christmas time - peaches, apricots, cherries etc. with a little sugar and then arrange them in a pretty pattern in the pie crust. I then use the "juice' that they were poached in by thickening it a little with arrowroot and then pouring it over the arranged fruit as a glaze. Served with ice cream or fresh whipped cream ( or both). God Bless Gwen . . . . .-- Gwen Kelly "Ophelia" wrote in message ... May we have the recipes please Gwen? warmly Ophelia "G.Kelly" wrote in message ... Thank you Melody I always like a few new things - started in on my old favourites on Saturday , Almond crisps and my old favourite custard powder ones and today a cherry and coconut slice - since i am not at work I always makes up little baskets of goodies for friends and neighbours God bless Gwen -- Gwen Kelly "Angelicsong" wrote in message le.rogers.com... For those of you who are starting their Christmas cookie exchanges at work and for those of us doing baking for the holiday, I found this page with tons of recipes! Hugs, Melody http://www.santas.net/recipes.htm |
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Gwen,
I just read and am printing the recipes out and you are making me hungry. Hugs, Nora |
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These recipes look wonderful! I just have two questions after reading them:
in the after coffee recipe, it says "Cherie Slices. ½ lb copha ( or 500 gr), " Aren't there about 450 grams in a pound? And, what is copha? Thanks, Windy "G.Kelly" wrote in message ... Ophelia I hope you like these - LADY ALICE BISCUITS ( OR CUSTARD POWDER BISCUITS) 6 ozs Plain flour, 2 ozs Custard powder, 2 oz icing sugar 3 ozs butter, 3 ozs margarine, pinch salt & little vanilla essence Cream butter, margarine ,sugar, essence and salt the work in flour and custard powder. Put in a biscuit forcer , place on a greased tray ( or baking paper as I do) 180 celcius for 15 minutes. It is important that you have butter & marg not just butter or marg. CHOCOLATE BISCUITS 6 oz self raising flour,4 oz corn flour,6ozs icing sugar, 6oz butter 1 oz cocoa( I use 3 highly heaped desertspoons) 1 egg, vanilla Cream butter and sugar add egg and cream then stir in the other ingredients. Out through a biscuit forcer. Place on baking paper and bake 180 celcius for about 14 or 15 minutes. When cold sandwich with a butter icing. I usually make a lot of the Lady Alice in different shapes and then I sandwich some with a butter icing- others I decorate with a half of a glase cherrie, and some I leave as they are. FRUIT SLICES Make your favourite everyday biscuit mix - mine has no recipe I just start with a quantity of margarine about 250 grams and enough sugar to make them as sweet as you like- cream this and add an egg and then work in enough self raising flour to make it the consistency of short pastry. In fact I use this for all my pies too. Roll out on baking paper the size of your biscuit tray then spread with filling and then place another layer of the biscuit mix on top -cut into finger length pieces and prick with a fork and sprinkle with sugar Filling depending on how much pastry you have made you may alter the quantities. The basic quantities I invented when I thought these up was about three cups of mixed dried fruit ( sultanas, currents etc) place in a saucepan over low heat with about a half cup of water and cook until soft then either put through a blender or use a bar mix and mince them up. The add two tablespoons of drinking chocolate and a heaped tablespoon of butter and again cook slowly ( add a little more water it the mix looks so thick it might burn) and this will give the fruit a little caramel/chocolate taste. All these biscuits both filled and not filled will keep in an airtight tin for months FOR AFTER COFFEE Cherie Slices. ½ lb copha ( or 500 gr), 1 cup drinking chocolate, a 200 gr packet of glace cherries, 1 tin sweetened condensed milk (395 gr), ½ lb coconut a tiny drop of pink colouring ( you want it pink not red) and packet of morning coffee biscuits ( any thin arrowroot type biscuit will do) Line a tray with the biscuits and leave out for a day or so to soften Melt ¼ lb of the copha, add cherries, coconut, condensed milk and colour and spread over the biscuits. Heat the other ¼ lb of copha and mix into the drinking chocolate spread over the cherrie mix and refrigerate to set. When set cut into small squares and keep refrigerated in our climate but for your Christmas temp I guess this would not be necessary. They will keep for months in the fridge. Caramel slices 1 cup self raising flour,1 cup coconut, ½ cup brown sugar, 1 cup of rolled oats( oatmeal). 150 gr butter (melted), 1 tin sweetened condensed milk (395 gr) 2 tablespoons of golden syrup ( I do not know if you have this - I know you have corn syrup but that is a clear syrup while golden syrup is just that - golden. I guess treacle would do 30 gr of extra butter,150 gr of dark cooking chocolate, 20 gr copha Combine first 5 ingredients in bowl and mix well and press into the base of a foil lined 18cm x 28 cm tin ( or a combination that makes up that size). Bake 180 celcius for 12 minutes. Combine the milk, syrup and extra butter in a saucepan , bring to the boil, lower heat and simmer for 6 minutes stirring all the time Pour caramel over the biscuit base and cook another 12 minutes then let cool Combine melted chocolate and copha in a saucepan till all melted then coat the caramel and put in fridge to set. Cut into squares when set. Of course I always make marshmallows and coconut ice as well. So these are the MUST MAKES for Christmas in our household for desert on Christmas day i make a pie crust ( using "recipe" of the fruit slices) and then I lightly poach a mixture of all the stone fruit we have ripe at Christmas time - peaches, apricots, cherries etc. with a little sugar and then arrange them in a pretty pattern in the pie crust. I then use the "juice' that they were poached in by thickening it a little with arrowroot and then pouring it over the arranged fruit as a glaze. Served with ice cream or fresh whipped cream ( or both). God Bless Gwen . . . . .-- Gwen Kelly "Ophelia" wrote in message ... May we have the recipes please Gwen? warmly Ophelia "G.Kelly" wrote in message ... Thank you Melody I always like a few new things - started in on my old favourites on Saturday , Almond crisps and my old favourite custard powder ones and today a cherry and coconut slice - since i am not at work I always makes up little baskets of goodies for friends and neighbours God bless Gwen -- Gwen Kelly "Angelicsong" wrote in message le.rogers.com... For those of you who are starting their Christmas cookie exchanges at work and for those of us doing baking for the holiday, I found this page with tons of recipes! Hugs, Melody http://www.santas.net/recipes.htm |
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Sew-Sew Lady wrote: These recipes look wonderful! I just have two questions after reading them: in the after coffee recipe, it says "Cherie Slices. ½ lb copha ( or 500 gr), " Aren't there about 450 grams in a pound? And, what is copha? 454grams in a pound; 568ml in a pint. This last always confuses my mother, because in Germany, a pint is 500ml. -- Kirsten Procter ghoti Current projects; full-length dress with matching jacket, child's jumper, gifts |
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| On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:56:55 -0000, "Ophelia" wrote:
Gosh.. thank you very much Gwen) These are saved and will be tested in full) Ophelia Saving them here, too, though it may be a while before I dare test them! Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist in Fairland, MD USA http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/ |
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