Showing posts with label Egg yolk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egg yolk. Show all posts

Saturday, October 29, 2011

M.Y. San Grahams Pineapple Box Cake and Crema de Fruta

pineapple upside-down cakeImage by normanack via FlickrPineapple Upside Down CakeImage by Made In PHL via FlickrClose up of Crema de FrutaImage by Zeetz Jones via FlickrCrema de Fruta CakeImage by Zeetz Jones via FlickrI have lifted these 2 simple recipes from M.Y. San's Grahams wrapper. Hope it is useful to many.
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M.Y. San Grahams
Pineapple Box Cake

Ingredients

  • 12 pcs M.Y. San Grahams Honey
  • 1/4 cup M.Y. San Grahams Honey, crushed
  • 1 439g can crushed pineapple, drained
  • 1 1/2 cup (1 1/2 of 250mL brick) all-purpose cream, chilled and whipped
  • 1/2 168mL can condensed milk


Procedure

  1. DO THE FILLING - In a bowl, combine crushed pineapple, whipped all-purpose cream and condensed milk. Divide into 4 equal parts. Set aside.
  2. LAYER and ASSEMBLE - Spread a fourth of the pineapple cream mixture on the bottom of an 8 x 8 inch baking dish. Dip 4 pieces of crackers into reserved pineapple juice and place on top of pineapple cream mixture. Repeat procedure for the remaining crackers and cream mixture.
  3. FINISH and GARNISH - Spread the crushed M.Y. San Grahams on top. CHILL before serving.


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M.Y. San Grahams
Crema de Fruta

Ingredients

Crust:



Filling:

  • 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
  • 5 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 1/4 cup condensed milk
  • 1 1/4 cup water
  • 2 pcs egg yolk, beaten slightly
  • 2 cups fruit cocktail, drained (reserve some juice)


Gulaman:

  • 1/2 bar clear gulaman
  • 1/2  tbsp sugar
  • 1 cup water


Procedure

  1. DO FILLING - Mix sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan. In a bowl, combine condensed milk and water. Gradually add milk mixture to the cornstarch mixture. Cook on low heat until thickened, about 8-10 minutes. Turn off heat.
  2. ADD - egg yolks to the thickened cornstarch-sugar mixture, beating vigorously to avoid  cooking the eggs. Return pan to low heat and cook for 2 minutes more. Cool.
  3. ASSEMBLE - Arrange 6 M.Y. San Grahams (dipped in the fruit cocktail syrup) on the bottom on an 8-inch square pan. Spread half of the custard evenly on top of the crackers. Top with a fourth of the fruit cocktail. Repeat procedure.
  4. BREAK - gulaman bar in half of the cold water to soften. Boil the remaining water; add the softened gulaman mixture and the sugar. Boil until gulaman is completely dissolved. Pour gulaman on top of fruit cocktail. Chill and serve.


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    Sunday, January 2, 2011

    Leche Flan tips

    Leche FlanImage via WikipediaMy wife cooked for our Christmas and New year dinner simple dishes, but which are not really simple to cook. These are our native dishes, and so native that wherever Filipinos go, whichever continent they land their feet on, the food follows.

    Here we are in Singapore at the moment, and she made leche flan (egg custard). We've seen 2 prevailing recipes, the one as the standard method, and the other with honey. So she tried the one with honey.

    It turned out that the honey should not be mixed with the base custard, but with the topping only. At any rate, what she made was super!

    My Sweet Mexico: Recipes for Authentic Pastries, Breads, Candies, Beverages, and Frozen TreatsOf course, others may use coffee to put in a bitter taste that will balance the otherwise all-sweet custard taste. And on the other hand, some will use lemon rind instead of using coffee. Well, the coffee is just for the topping, while the lemon rind goes to the base custard mix.

    She used lemon rind, and she scraped more than the usual. I could say I liked what she did. it is like eating a mentholated custard - sweet, bitter, with a bit of a kick left in the mouth.

    And why do some include the egg white? As I've seen it done in the provinces, it is to
    1. make the custard firmer; using only egg yolk makes the custard very soft, which some desire, of course.
    Daisy Cooks: Latin Flavors That Will Rock Your World2. produce more leche flan. I mean, the egg white is about 1/4 or 2/3 of the whole egg, so if you add that, you'll end up having leche flan by 1/4 or 2/3 more than what you'd get when you use only egg yolks.

    So that's all about it! Enjoy!
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