Showing posts with label lemon juice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lemon juice. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 January 2015

Lavender cookies with a lemon esence

The second one today.  A dessert.  Who could resist to a cookie?  Well, i adore cookies.  And, in this case, is very simple to prepare cookies.  And, you can prepare it in every moment, because i used ingredients that everybody have always in the kitchen.


INGREDIENTS:
- 100 grs. of flour.
- 50 grs. of butter.
- 80 grs. of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- A handful of lavender branches.
- A half a lemon.

PREPARATION:
- First of all, you have to warm the butter up, until it were liquid.
- Mix the butter with the sugar.
- Add the two eggs beated to the previous mix, and remove.
- Add the flour and the lavender branches, and remove.
- Add the juice of the half lemon, and remove the mix until it were melted and thick.
- In a piece of vegetal paper, put little pieces of the dough.  Separe it well, to avoid that the final cookies were melted.
- Preheat the oven, until it had a high temperature.  Put the pieces and cook it.
- You have to repeat the previous step until you finished the dough. 
- Serve it!

(1) - You can use an orange instead a lemon, and you will obtain the cookies with an orange esence.

Saturday, 12 April 2014

Eggs Benedict

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- 8 eggs.
- 2 pieces of sliced bread.
- 250 grs. of butter.
- 4 slices of bacon.
- 1/2 lemon juice.

PREPARATION:
- The first we must prepare, is the "dutch sausage".  Melt the butter over low heat.  When it was prepared, retire the white part of the melted butter and reserve it.
- Put a pan plenty of water over medium heat. 
- Meanwhile, retire 4 egg yolks into a different recipient, and put over the pan with the water, as a double boiler, while we beat it.
- Add the melted butter slowly while we're still beating the eggs yolks until the mix were thicken, adding finally the lemon juice.  Reserve it.
- Now, taking advantadge of the boiled water, we're going to poch the 4 remaining eggs.  Add a little vinegar to the boiled water and, one at a time, break the 4 eggs and, slowly, slide its into the boiled water, retiring it when it were well poched.  Reserve it.
- Pass the 2 pieces of sliced bread over a frying pan, to get two toasted bread.
- Pass the 4 slices of bacon over a frying pan.  Reserve it.
- To serve, put the 2 pieces of toasted bread.  In every piece, put two slices of bacon and 2 poched eggs, sliding a little "dutch sausage" over it.     
- Serve it.