Food for the gods, sometimes known as a date bar or date and walnut bar, is a Filipino pastry dessert similar to the American dessert bar. Dates and walnuts are some of the main ingredients. The food is popular during the Christmas season, when they are wrapped in colored cellophane and sometimes given as gifts.
Karpatka is a traditional Polish cream pie with some sort of vanilla buttercream filling - aerated butter mixed with eggs beaten and steamed with sugar (krem russel), aerated butter mixed with crème pâtissière (according to Polish gastronomy textbooks made from whole eggs) or just thick milk kissel enriched with melted butter. Professionally it is made of one sheet of short pastry covered with a layer of choux pastry with a thin layer of marmalade and a thick layer of cream in between. Nevertheless, the version with two layers of choux pastry is popular. The cake is cut into squares or rectangles and dusted with icing sugar.
Mandelbrot (Yiddish: מאַנדלברויט), with a number of variant spellings, and called mandel bread or kamish in English-speaking countries and kamishbrot in Ukraine, is a type of cookie found in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine and popular amongst Eastern European Jews. The Yiddish word mandlbroyt literally means almond bread, a reference to its common ingredient of almonds. It is typically formed by baking a loaf which is then cut into small slabs and twice-baked in order to form a crunchy exterior. The cookies were popular in Eastern Europe among rabbis, merchants and other itinerant Jews as a staple dessert that kept well.
Moravian sugar cake is a sweet coffee cake that is often made in areas around Moravian Church settlements, particularly in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. It is made with a sweet yeast dough enriched with mashed potatoes.
Watergate salad, also referred to as Pistachio Delight or Shut the Gate salad, is a side dish salad or dessert salad made from pistachio pudding, canned pineapple, whipped topping, crushed walnuts or pecans, and marshmallows. It is very quick and simple to prepare: the ingredients are combined and then often chilled. It is a popular dish in areas of the U.S. where potlucks are common.
Modern ginger beer is a sweetened and carbonated, usually non-alcoholic beverage, a type of soft drink. Historically it was a type of beer brewed by the natural fermentation of prepared ginger spice, yeast and sugar. Modern ginger beers are often manufactured rather than brewed, frequently with flavour and colour additives, with artificial carbonation. The related ginger ales also are not brewed.
Ginger beer is still produced at home using a type of symbiotic colony of yeast and Lactobacillus bacteria (SCOBY) known as a "ginger beer plant", or from a "ginger bug" starter created from fermenting ginger, sugar, and water.
Candied fruit, also known as glacé fruit, is whole fruit, smaller pieces of fruit, or pieces of peel, placed in heated sugar syrup, which absorbs the moisture from within the fruit and eventually preserves it. Depending on the size and type of fruit, this process can take from several days to several months. This process of preservation, which has been used since the 14th century, allows the fruit to remain edible for up to a year.
A bagel (Yiddish: בײגל, romanized: beygl; Polish: bajgiel [ˈbajɡʲɛl]; also spelled beigel) is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. Bagels are traditionally made from yeasted wheat dough that is shaped by hand into a torus or ring, briefly boiled in water, and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior.
Tangzhong (Chinese: 湯種; pinyin: tāngzhǒng; [tʰáŋʈʂʊ̌ŋ]), also known as a water roux or yu-dane (Japanese: 湯種, romanized: yu-dane; [jɯ̟da̠ne̞]) is a paste of flour cooked in water or milk to over 65 °C (149 °F) which is used to improve the texture of bread and increase the amount of time it takes to stale.
Tangzhong is a gel, which helps stabilize the wheat starches in the bread, to prevent recrystallization which is the main cause of staling. The Chinese characters for the technique translate to "hot water seed".
Do you know how to Grow a Jamara? if you don't then this is the article for you. Here we tell you how to grow a jamara along with some frequently asked questions related to it.