Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 cup chocolate fresh milk
1/2 cup water mix with 2 tsp nescafe
2 tsp soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 cups wheat flour

Method:
1)Beat egg and sugar until light.Add in vegetable oil and mix well.
2)Sift and mix together the baking powder, soda, cocoa powder and wheat flour.
3)Mix the fresh milk and nescafe mix together with vanilla essence.
4)Add in sifted flour mixture into egg mixture 2–3 batches.
5)Stir in coffee choc mixture and mix well to blend.
6)Pour the mixture into a greased and lined cake tin.
7)Steam in pre-steamed steamer for 30-40 minutes or until cake is cooked through when tested with a skewer.

Rice Bread

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Ingredients :
100 gm white rice
100 ml water
250 gm superfine flour
60 ml fresh milk
1 tsp dry yeast
3 tbsp sugar
20 gm butter (soften)
1 tsp salt

Method:

1) First activate the dry yeast. Soak yeast with 1 tsp sugar in water. Sprinkle with 1/2 tsp plain

flour and set aside for 10 minutes or until mixture turns frothy.

2) Blend the rice together milk and water finely.

3) Sift flour into a mixing bowl. Add in salt and sugar.

4) Pour in the rice mixture , butter and frothy yeast mixture.

5) Mix to form a soft dough. Knead the dough on a floured surface for about 10 to 12 minutes

until it becomes even in texture, springy and no longer sticky.

6) Place dough in bowl. Cover with wet cloth and leave aside to prove for 40 minutes or until it doubles in bulk.

7) On a lightly-floured table, knead the dough again.

8) Shape small balls and place them on a lightly-greased baking tray. Cover with a tea towel and

prove for 30 to 35 minutes or until they double in size.
9) Bake in preheated oven.

10) Spread some butter on baked bread

Thosai

Ingredients :
50g blackgram dhal (ulunthu) with skin
175g uncooked rice
75g cooked rice
1 1/2-2 cups water
1 tsp salt or to taste

1 tsp fenugreek (venthayam)

1 tsp yis
Cooking oil or sesame oil or ghee

Method :

1) Wash rice and dhal and soak each separately overnight or for at least seven to eight hours.

2) Drain, remove skin from the dhal. Grind rice and dhal together with the cooked rice and

water in a blender until smooth.

3) Add salt and yis. Mix well. Leave to ferment for 8 to 10 hours.

4) Grease an iron griddle lightly with oil (cooking oil/sesame oil/ghee).
5) Pour a ladleful of batter onto the centre of the griddle. Spread the batter immediately with the back of the ladle starting from the centre in a clockwise motion to make a thin pancake.

6) Cook for about half a minute or until the underside turns slightly brown.

7) Remove thosai from the griddle and repeat till the rest of the batter is used up.

8) Serve thosai with chicken curry.

Fenugreek / Venthayam (Tamil) / Halba (Malay)

Good for……

• Fenugreek is used as a digestive aid.
• It also used as a galactagogue (milk producing agent) by nursing mothers to increase inadequate breast milk
• It help to reduce body heat
• Reducing the sugar level of the blood
• It also lowers blood pressure

How to use?

1. Use in curries
2. Daily morning take 1 tsp fenugreek, put inside mouth and drink water (daily)

Source from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenugreek

http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/fenugree.html

Upside Down Pineapple Cake

Ingredients:
200gm Castor sugar
180gm butter
4 Eggs
300gm Self Rising flour
1 cup pineapple juice
1 tsp vanilla essence
6 Drained, tinned pineapple slices
1/2 cup brown sugar
6 Cherry

Method:
1) Brush a loaf tin with melted butter. Sprinkle with 1 tbsp brown sugar.
2) Arrange pineapple slices on bottom of tin. Place a Cherry in the centre and circles on the sides.
3) Sprinkle another 1 tbsp brown sugar.
4) Cream butter, sugar and essence until light and fluffy.
5) Add egg one at a time, beating well after each addition.
6) Fold in sifted flour gradually.
7) Add in the pineapple juice and mix well.
8) Pour batter into prepared tin and bake for 45-55 minutes or until cake is cooked.
9) Cool cake in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

Source by : Mazna