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Tropical fruit cake
Ingredients
(For the cake)
3 eggs
200g sugar
200g butter
200g cake flour
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 small sour plantains
1.5 tea cup chocolate chips or cooking chocolate chunks
(For the pineapple base)
4-5 rings of pineapple
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
Glazed cherries (optional)
Method
For the pineapple base
Step 1. Take the hard centre out and carefully saute the pineapple rings with the sugar and cinnamon for 3 minutes
Step 2. Leave to cool.
For the cake
Step 1. Light the oven so that it is hot when your cake batter goes in
Step 2. Using the cake setting in your food processor, beat the eggs and sugar.
Step 3. Add the butter and keep beating
Step 4. Add the vanilla and roughly chopped plantains and keep beating
Step 5. Fold in the cake flour and then add the
chocolate chips
Step 6. Grease a small (9-inch) baking tray
Step 7. Arrange the sauteed pineapple at the bottom of the tray, place a glazed cherry at the centre of each ring and pour the cake batter over it.
Step 8. Pop it into the oven and bake for 30 minutes or until the cake is golden on top and coming off the edges of the pan.
Step 9. Let the cake cool and then flip it onto a tray or plate!
Heili and Vithulya Rambukwella
Image from JoyofBaking.com Internet
Halapa
We also bring you a traditional recipe – that of Halapa.
Ingredients
!/2 measure slightly roasted rice flour
½ lb jaggery (scraped)
1 lb scraped coconut
Salt
Method
Put all the ingredients together in a basin and mix well together by hand. Place a dessertspoonful of the mixture on a kenda leaf, flatten it out and fold the leaf in two. Then steam the halapas.
How to steam
Tie a pudding or any other suitable cloth over the mouth of a fairly open chatty pot three-quarters full of water. Cover it with a chatty big enough to cover the rim of the pot and bring the water to the boil.Then place the halapas , a few at a time on the improvised steamer and steam for 15 to 20 minutes or until sufficiently boiled.As the water in the steaming pot boils down more boiling water must be added. Source: Daily News Cookery Book
Sauce Marshmellow
Ingredients
4 ozs marshmellows
1 gill water
6 ozs sieved icing sugar (approx) 2 egg whites
Method
Cut the marshmellows into small pieces, put into a double saucepan, the inner one should be of china. If this is not available, a pudding basin can be placed over a pan of boiling water, the basin wide enough to rest firmly on the edge with the bottom resting firmly in the water.
Allow to melt, then add the icing sugar and stir until smooth. Remove the inner pan and beat thoroughly until quite smooth and cool. Fold in the stiffly-whisked whites of eggs, and whisk all together until thick.
The quantity of sugar depends on the size of the eggs.
If the sauce is more liquid add more sieved sugar. Add flavouring of choice. Source: Daily News Cookery Book
Food Safety Basics
Wash hands in warm, soapy water before and after handling food.
Pull back long hair, off the shoulders.
Keep counter tops and working surfaces clean.
Teach children to wait until food is cooked before tasting. ...
Avoid double dipping or putting spoons back into food after using them for tasting.
Source: Internet