Fruit cake

Combination of fruits and vanilla cream is fascinating so these cakes are favorite to many. Today is the day when my kitchen is going to be decorated with this fruit cake.

Fruit cake

INGREDIENTS:

For crust:

Nine eggs

Sugar - 9 table spoons

Flour - 9 table spoons

For filling:

Milk - 5 cups

Sugar - 8 table spoons

Three yolks

Flour - 3 table spoons

Margarine - 9 oz (1 pack)

Cream - 1 pack (or 2 cups of sweet cream)

Vanilla sugar - 2 packs

Fruits - to taste (pineapple, chary, bananas etc.)

PREPARATION:

Crust:

Mix 3 egg whites gradually adding 3 table spoons of flour. Add 3 yolks and mix it all together. Add 3 table spoons of flour and mix it with wooden spoon. Bake it in preheated oven on 390 F for about 30 minutes. Make three crusts in that way. Cool it down and spray with rum or fruit juice.

Filling:

Scrambled yolks with sugar, flour and vanilla sugar add into boiling milk and cook it on vapor. When filling for fruit cake becomes thick leave it to cool down. Margarine scrambled with sugar add and unite with filling. At the very end, add cream slowly (or sweet cram).

Prepared filling for fruit cake smear over crust. Put fruits over filling but last crust goes without filling over it. Coat fruit cake with cream or fondant. 

Before serving leave fruit cake in refrigerator for couple of hours.

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Fasting moussaka

If it is time of fasting you can surprise your family with this delicious meal. If you like mushrooms you can use them and if you don`t you can use soy.

Fasting moussaka

INGREDIENTS:

One leek

One carrot

Rice - 1 cup

Mushrooms - 14 oz

Potatoes - 35 oz

Salt - to taste

One vegetable soup cube

Spices - to taste

Oil or margarine - for roasting vegetables

PREPARATION:

Cut the leek in small pieces and put it in a pot. Roast it until becomes soft. Plane carrot and add it in the same pot and go on with stewing adding some water. Add mushrooms, mix it with carrot and leek, add crumbled soup cube and stew 5 more minutes. Add previously washed rice and spices and stew 2 more minutes. Filling for moussaka remove from the stove and leave it to cool down. 

Peel off potatoes and cut it out in rings. Arrange half of potatoes in pot for cooking moussaka to cover the bottom of the pot. Put all filling over potatoes. Rest of potatoes arrange over filling. Before cooking overflow moussaka with water just to be little bit above potatoes. Roast it in oven on 390 F for about 2 hours. 

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Green rolls

Green rolls are pretty similar with cabbage rolls just we use greens instead cabbage. I like to prepare it in dozen ways. I usually prepare it in springs and summers when cabbage is out of season. Try this one, it is pretty, tasty and juicy.

INGREDIENTS:

One leek

One carrot

Rice - 1 cup

Minced meat - 17 oz

Greens - 15 leaves

One vegetable soup cube

Salt - to taste

Spices - to taste

Paprika - 1 table spoon

Flour - 1 table spoon

Oil for stew vegetables - by need

Green Rolls

PREPARATION:

Cut the leek in small pieces and put it in a pot and fry until it becomes soft. Put grated carrot in same pot and continue with stewing adding some water. After that add minced meat, mix it with carrot and leek, put crumbled soup cube and stew for 5 more minutes. Add previously washed rice and spices and stew it for 2 more minutes. Finished filling remove from stove and leave it to cool down. Put the greens into hot water for 30 minutes until leaves become soft.
Stronger parts of leaf root cut out to make leaf flexible. Arrange leaves at a bottom of the pot for cooking rolls.Two leaves place on your hand and put filling just enough to completely roll leaves. After rolling arrange it in pot. Do it for all filling. When it is finished pour water to the edge of pot and cover them with last few leaves. Cook it in oven on 390 F for about 2 hours.

Instead of water you can use tomato juice. At the almost end of cooking, pour 1/2 cup of oil in a little pot and heat it to boiling. Add one table spoon of flour, mix it and add one table spoon of paprika and mix it all together. Browned flour pour into pot with rolls of greens, mix it and cook for 10 more minutes.

Serve green rolls with sour cream.

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Domestic donuts

If someone says donuts I immediately get appetite. I knead very often but donuts are pretty easy for preparing so this is some kind of an express dessert. There are plenty of recipes for donuts but I modified it for a little so you can try with this one. You will never regret :-)

Domestic donuts

INGREDIENTS:

Flour - 17 oz

Two eggs

One fresh yeast

Oil - 1 cup

Milk - 3 cups

Salt - 1 coffee spoon

Sugar - 5 coffee spoons

Vanilla sugar - 1 pack

Grated lemon or orange crust

Oil for frying - 2 cups

Caster sugar - for sprinkling

Donuts preparation

PREPARATION:

Put the flour into a deep pot and add eggs, oil, milk, salt, sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon or orange crust and crumbled yeast. Mix it all together and knead soft dough. If it is too light add some more flour or if it is too hard add some more milk. You ought to separate dough from the pot easily without sticking to pot or fingers. Cover the dough with clean dish cloth and leave it to rise for about 45 minutes (depends on room temperature).
When it is good enough place it on floured desktop. Stretch the dough with rolling pin and cut out circles with mold or glass. Leave the circles for 15 minutes on floured surface. Heat the oil in a deeper pot and place donuts to fry. It takes few minutes per one side of donuts to be fried. Finished donuts place on paper or serviette to soak spare oil. Sprinkle donuts with caster sugar or vanilla sugar or anything else you want for decoration :-)

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Roasted peppers in oil

My favorite salad in winters is roasted peppers in oil. While my husband likes to eat beans with onion I prefer to have it with peppers and garlic. Anytime his parents grill peppers for preparing winter salad they put aside several packages for roasted peppers. Considering this salad it contains fresh garlic which is very healthy especially in winters when we need more immunity.

Roasted peppers in oil

INGREDIENTS:

7 - 8 Peppers

Salt - to taste (2 coffee spoons)

Sugar - 1 coffee spoon

Garlic - 3 cloves

Oil - 1 cup

Vinegar - 4 tops

PREPARATION:

First of all you should grill your peppers. When it is finished put them into a pot with cover (this will make it easier for peeling). Peel cold peppers and arrange it in a pot for salad and add some salt. Cut garlic into small pieces.
Overflow peppers with oil and vinegar and add sugar and garlic. Mix it and cool in refrigerator before serving. After tasting you can add some vinegar if it needs. 

It could be stored in refrigerator for a week so you can make more than usually. 

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CheeseCake (cheaper one)

This is the cheaper version of cheesecake and is much better if you don`t want to buy mascarpone cheese which is pretty expensive. There are almost no differences in taste. Fruits, which you will use for this cheesecake, is mater of your taste and choice. Preparation process is pretty easy, and by the way, with ordinary cheese it will be very cheap. Well. after all, famous cheesecake could be part of your table.

Cheese Cake

INGREDIENTS:
For Crust:
Crumbled biscuit - 12 oz
Margarine - 3 oz
Milk - 1 cup

For Filling:
Cheese or cheese cream - 20 oz
Sour cream - 2 cups
Caster sugar - 2 cups
Gelatin - 3 packs
Vanilla sugar - 3 packs

For Dressing:
Frozen fruits - to choice
Sugar - 1 cup
Gelatin - 3 packs

PREPARATION:
Let the margarine to stay for one hour on room temperature. Mix it with mixer and add biscuit and milk and knead it all together. Put it into the mold to make crust for cheesecake.
Separately, mix the cheese, sour cream, caster sugar and vanilla sugar. Put 12 table spoons of water into pot and pour gelatin. Mix it and leave it for five minutes to rise. When gelatin becomes thick heat it to melting point with mixing during melting. Pour it into filling of cheese. Mix it all together. Prepared filling for cheesecake pour onto the crust.
Put the frozen fruits into the pot and mix it with sugar. Heat it on burner, mixing it until fruits become soft. Prepare gelatin as mentioned above (with 12 tablespoons of water). Prepared gelatin put into the fruits, mix it well and dress filling cream of cheese. Coll the cheesecake down in the refrigerator for the whole night. In the morning, put down the mold and start with eating. I believe you will enjoy. 
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