Miesiąc: maj 2017

Brownie with oranges.

Ingredients:

–          200g butter

–          3 cups of sugar

–          2 cups of flour

–          0,5 cup milk

–          4 eggs

–          4 spoons of cocoa

–          1 spoon of vanilla extract

–          2 teaspoons of baking powder

–          2 oranges

–          1 spoon of butter

Preparation:

1. Take a large saucepan and put there butter, sugar, cocoa, milk and vanilla extract. Heat it mixing from time to time until it boils.
2. Take it off the fire. Take out about 100ml of the mixture to use it as icing. Wait until the mixture will cool down.
3. Add flour mixed with baking powder to the cold mixture and grind it with wooden spoon.
4. The mass will be very dense. Add one egg yolk at a time and continue grinding.
5. Beat up the egg whites and mix gently half of it with the cocoa mass.
6. As the mass is becoming less dense add the remaining whites and mix gently.
7. Put the mass in a long baking dish and bake it at 180 degrees for about 35-45 minutes.
8. Prepare the orange peel: blanch the oranges and peel them removing white layer from the peel. Cut the peel into small pieces and fry with spoon of butter, juice from half of orange and 4 spoons of sugar.
9. When baked and cooled, cover the brownie with icing you left and powder with the orange peel.

Aromatic duck in oranges

Ingredients:

–          Duck about 2kg

–          2 spoons of butter

–          4 oranges

–          2 spoons of honey

–          2 cloves

–          50ml of sweet white wine

–          Salt

–          White pepper

Preparation:

1. Clean, rinse and dry the duck.
2. Scrub the duck with salt and pepper from both outside and inside. Leave it for 2 hours.
3. Scrub one of the oranges carefully and cut it along into halves.
4. Peel one of the halves, remove the white layer from the peel and cut it into stripes. Boil the peel for 5 minutes and drain it.
5. Squeeze the juice from the peeled half.
6. Slice the other half of the orange.
7. Peel the remaining oranges and cut into pieces. Mix with honey, crushed cloves and wine. Leave it for 15 minutes.
8. Put the duck on the hot butter in the frying pen.
9. Fill the duck with mix of oranges and honey. Sew the duck with toothpicks.
10. Put the duck in a pan. Pour it with orange juice and place in the oven heated to 180 celsius degrees. Bake it for about 2 hours. Pour the duck with the sauce created in the pan a few times when in the oven.
11. 15 minutes before the end of baking place the orange slices on the duck and cover it with the peel.

Bon appetite!