Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions -PASTRY- 140 g Plain flour (5 oz) 1/2 ts Sugar 1 ts Baking powder 3 tb Milk 60 g Unsalted butter (2 1/4 oz) Butter and flour for the 1 ds Salt – tart tin FILLING 120 g Caster sugar (4 oz) 100 ml Good dry white wine (scant 1 ts Ground […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Skim milk 1 (6 cup) ceramic or glass 3 tb Plain yogurt -container with tight 1 c Flour -fitting lid 1. Heat skim milk to 90-100? f. Remove from heat and stir into yogurt. 2. Allow to stand at room temperature 18-24 hours or until curds form. Stir with wooden […]

Ingredients & Directions 3 lg Eggs, beaten 1 1/2 c Skim milk 3/4 c Swiss cheese, grated 2 tb Cream cheese, softened 1 tb Onion, minced 1/4 c Parsley, chopped 1/2 c Carrots, shredded 1 lb Regular crabmeat 1/2 ts Nutmeg 1/4 ts White pepper 1 pn Salt pastry for 2 crust pie Roll out […]

Ingredients & Directions SHORTCRUST PASTRY DOUGH 2 oz Fat* 4 oz Flour 2 tb Water -EGG CUSTARD- 2 Whole egg 10 oz Milk 1 tb Sugar 1 pn Salt * Lard or a good cooking fat makes the shortest pastry. Butter gives the best favour. A mixture of half lard and half butter or margarine […]

Ingredients & Directions FOR THE ALMOND PASTRY 3 c Unbleached all-purpose flour 2 ts Vanilla extract 18 tb Unsalted butter; chilled 4 tb Sugar – cut into small pieces 1 ts Salt 2 Eggs 1/2 c Finely chopped almonds 1 tb Milk Flour -FOR THE FILLING- 3 7-oz tubes almond paste – in extra-light syrup […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Recipe Pate Sucree 5 lg Apples (about 2 1/2 pounds) 1 Lemon, Juice of 4 tb Butter 3/4 c Plus 1 tablespoon sugar 1/3 c Cranberries, optional Make the dough. Form into a 5-inch disk, wrap in plastic and chill one hour, or up to 3 days. Remove the dough from […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/4 c Miracle Whip Salad Dressing 1 ts Dry minced onion 1/4 c Mayonnaise 1 ds Black pepper 1/4 c Sour cream Few drops ofTabasco sauce 1 tb Prepared yellow mustard 1/4 c Sweet pickle relish 1 ts Granulated sugar In mixing bowl, add all ingredients except relish; blend well. Fold in […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 3/4 c All purpose flour 1/4 c Powdered sugar 1 ts Ground ginger 1/4 ts Salt 10 tb Chilled unsalted butter, Cut into pieces 4 lg Egg yolks 3 tb Water 1 c Whole milk 1 One inch long piece fresh Ginger, Peeled, thinly sliced 1/2 Vanilla bean, split Lengthwise 1/2 […]

Ingredients & Directions A; (1/2-pound) frozen ; puff pastry sheet, ; thawed 1 bn Scallions; (white and pale ; green parts only), ; sliced thin ; (about3/4 cup) 1 tb Unsalted butter 1 lb Asparagus; trimmed and cut ; diagonally into ; 1/4-inch-thick ; slices, reserving ; tips 3 lg Eggs A; (3 1/2-ounce) log […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 cn (16-oz.) whole cranberry -sauce 1/3 c Granulated sugar 1 1/2 tb Cornstarch 3/4 lb Rhubarb stalks, cut into -1/2- inch pieces Pastry dough for 9-inch -single crust pie Confectioner’s sugar Preheat oven to 375. In a mixing bowl, comine cranberry sauce, sugar and cornstarch. Stir in rhubarb. Pour mixture into […]