Maple Cream Simply Wonderfuls
A friend introduced me to the wonder of maple sugar as a sweetener, and we never tire of exchanging new ways to showcase its delicate flavor. It is the closest counterpart to Bengal’s exquisite nalin gur, an ingredient rarely found outside of the west Bengal. The confection is equally delicious sweetened with date sugar or date puree, all of them available at health food stores or mail order suppliers. ...
Peach Cobbler
Ingredients: • All purpose flour – 1 cup • Brown sugar – 1/2 cup • White sugar – 1/2 cup • Baking powder – 2 tsp • Salt – 1/2 tsp • Vanilla extract – 1 tsp • Milk – 3/4 cup • Margarine, melted – 1/2 cup • Sliced canned peaches, drained – 1 (29 ounce) can ...
Pistachio Milk Fudge
Plain milk marries well with chopped pistachios and rose water. The mixture can be left just marbled with nuts or tinted a pistachio green color. For a classic look, garnish with a piece of edible silver foil (varak) and slivered pistachios. Preparation time (after assembling ingredients): 30 minutes Ingredients • Sugar – ½ cup (110 g) • Water – 1 cup (240 ml) ...
Quick and Easy Milk Fudge
For centuries, Vedic cooks have been making milk fudge burfi from the same ingredients: milk reduced to pasty-dough, and unrefined sugars –either cane jaggery or palm gur, Burfi has changed very little since its beginnings, but with the twentieth century came powdered milk and shortcut procedures. Rather than boiling milk to reduce it to a paste, modern cooks can stir powdered milk into a flavored syrup and cook it very...
Chick-pea-flour fudge
Ingredients •1.5 cup butter •3 cups chick-pea flour (besan) •2 cups milk •1.5 cup sugar •¼ cup chopped cashew nuts •2 tbsp grated coconut •2 tbsp cinnamon •¼ cup chopped pistachio Preparation 1.Melt the butter in a pan. Stir besan into the pan and cook for 15 minutes (need to stir constantly). Add coconut and nuts and cook for another 5 minutes. 2.In a saucepan, boil...