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The perfect dessert for Midsummer!

Cake

4 eggs

2 dl sugar

1 dl flour

1 dl potatoflour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Heat the oven to 175 C. Whip eggs and sugar white and fluffy. Mix the dry ingredients in an other bowl. Mix everything and pour the batter into a round baking pan (butter the pan before). Bake it in the bottom of the oven in 30-40 min. Let the cake cool before you take it out from the pan.

Cut the cake in two (horisontally). Mush fresh strawberries and put them between the layers. Whip cream and put it on top, decorate with a lot of fresh strawberries!

Enjoy!

Es Teler

One of my favorite desserts from hot & humid Indonesia =) Though nothing can beat fresh fruits, canned ones will do just fine!

Ingredients:

Canned jackfruit (drain and chopped into size of a dice)

Canned young coconut (drain and cut in half)

Fresh avocado (spoon into smaller bits)
White sugar

Sweetened condensed milk

(Crushed) ice

Put the fruits in a bowl, add sugar, condensed milk, a little bit of water, and lots and lots of (crushed) ice!

Mix everything together & enjoy!!!

Way Too Easy Peach Cobbler

125 g butter
1 cup (125 g) flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (200 g) sugar
1 cup (200 ml) milk
3-4 tablespoon shredded coconut
1 big can of peaches (circa. 800 g), cut in slices

Preheat oven to 175 C, place butter in baking dish, put it in the oven until the butter completely melts.
While waiting, mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, milk, & shredded coconut.
When the melted butter is ready, take the baking dish out from the oven & pour the batter evenly, topped it with peaches.
Bake for 50-60 minutes until brown.

Tips: reduce the amount of sugar if you want to serve the cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Yum!

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Lets go to Lake Mälaren!

Hej! On Saturday, a friend and I rode our bikes to the Lake Mälaren and it was so peaceful and beautiful! Join me next time won’t you =]

And! Did you know there are castles around the lake. Mälarslott is a collection of palaces around Lake Mälaren, that are open to visitors. They all receive groups, and most of them also receive individual visitors. Here are palaces with immence cultural treasures, royal palaces, private castles, palaces that serve as a hotel or as a museum. The span, from Stockholm in the East to Strömsholm in the West, is approximatly 150 kilometers. http://www.malarslott.se/index_eng.htm

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apparently words such as add, yeast, & tablespoons are some of the words we use most frequently in this blog!

if you have nothing better to do go to www.wordle.net & trust me, it's so much fun just to play around with designing the word clouds.

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Mitt bröd - My bread

Hi everyone!

Here is the "recipe" to my bread. I have to point out that I don't use a recipe when I do the bread..so this is more or less how much I think I use of the different ingredients... ;)

Start with dividing the fresh yeast into small "crumbs", take 25g yeast (half a package). Take five deciliters of warm water ("body temperature" (37 c) not to hot! Then you "kill" the yeast!) and mix it with the yeast. You can heat some milk and have that instead of the water, or mix water and milk...important is that it is 37 c when you pour it over the yeast (it is easy to find out if the water/milk is hot enough -use your finger!).

Then add something sweet (syrup, honey..) about 2 tablespoons. The yeast is "triggered" with the sweet, do not skip it! Also add something fat (oil or butter), if you add butter you first melt it and then add the milk/water to the melted butter and reheat that to 37 c (and then pour it over the yeast etc..). About 2 tablespoons fat too. The last thing to add which is a "must" for the dough to work properly is salt. About a teaspoon.

Now to the things you can vary almost to eternity ;)
Sunflower-seeds, crushed flax-seeds, cumin, other spices like fennel etc and of course flour! Different kinds of flour, use what you have at home. It is good to have in mind that the bread proves best on wheat-flour, I always have some wheat-flour. The amount of flour is about 7-9 decilitres. The dough don't have to be perfect (meaning; absolutely non-sticky) because you can add more flour when making the buns. Leave the dough to rest for about 30 min when you have added some flour.

After 30 min, add more flour if necessary, knead the dough and make buns (in the size you feel is nice). When you are done with the buns, turn on the oven at 200 c and put the buns in the oven - before it is hot. It is a perfect environment in the oven for some more proving/"growing" of the buns. Look at them every 5 min, depending on how fast your owen heats it will take different amount of time. When the bread is done (golden brown surface, and also lift them and look under, should be brown as well) take it out of the oven and enjoy!

And if I have written something that is completely impossible to understand, please tell me!
Kram!